Noel, James A., 1948-

Black religion and the imagination of matter in the Atlantic World [electronic resource] / James A. Noel. - 1st ed. - New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. - xiii, 231 p. : ill. - Black religion, womanist thought, social justice . - Black religion, womanist thought, social justice. .

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

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.


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Long, Charles H.


Blacks--Religion.
African Americans--Religion.


Africa--Religion.


Electronic books.

BL2400 / .N64 2009