Black Religion and the Imagination of Matter in the Atlantic World / by J. Noel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Noel, James A., 1948-

Series:

Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice, 2945-6983

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion--History.

Religion.

Race.

African Americans.

Culture.

Religion--Philosophy.

History of Religion.

Race and Ethnicity Studies.

African American Culture.

Philosophy of Religion.

Local Subjects:

History of Religion.

Race and Ethnicity Studies.

African American Culture.

Philosophy of Religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (246 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2009.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book situates the study of Black Religion within the modern temporal and historical structures in the Atlantic World. It describes how black people and Black Religion made a phenomenological appearance in modernity simultaneously and were signified in the identity formation of whites and their religion.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-218) and index.

ISBN:

9786612507830

9781282507838

1282507834

9780230620810

0230620817

OCLC:

427857386