Black religion and the imagination of matter in the Atlantic World / James A. Noel.

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Main Author: Noel, James A., 1948-
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Black religion, womanist thought, social justice.
Subjects:
Long, Charles H.
Black people > Religion.
African Americans > Religion.
Africa > Religion.
Physical Description:xiii, 231 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Studying black religion : contacts/exchanges and continuities/discontinuities
  • The age of discovery and the emergence of the Atlantic world
  • The imagination of matter in the Atlantic world's political economy
  • Being, nothingness, and the "signification of silence" in African American religious consciousness
  • Epistemologies opaque : conjuring, conjecture, and the problematic of Nat Turner's Biblical hermeneutic
  • The mulatto as material/sexual site of modernity's contacts and exchanges
  • "The signification of silence" revisited : African American art and hermeneutics
  • The meaning of the moan and significance of the shout in Black worship and culture and memory and hope
  • The salsa/jazz/blues idiom and Creolization in the Atlantic world.