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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781070203321

Autore

Noel J

Titolo

Black Religion and the Imagination of Matter in the Atlantic World [[electronic resource] /] / by J. Noel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

1-282-50783-4

9786612507830

0-230-62081-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2009.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (246 p.)

Collana

Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice

Disciplina

200.8996

Soggetti

Religion—History

Ethnicity

African Americans

Religion—Philosophy

History of Religion

Ethnicity Studies

African American Culture

Philosophy of Religion

Africa Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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.



Sommario/riassunto

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.