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

• Autore: Noel James A. <1948->
• Pubblicazione: New York, NY, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (246 p.)
• Disciplina: 200.8996
• Soggetto topico: Blacks - Religion; African Americans - Religion
• Soggetto geografico: Africa Religion
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Black religion and the imagination of matter in the Atlantic World
• ISBN: 1-282-50783-4; 9786612507830; 0-230-62081-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910819173503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Black religion, womanist thought, social justice.