Black Religion and the Imagination of Matter in the Atlantic World

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Studying Black Religion: Contacts/Exchanges and Continuities/Discontinuities

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   Pages 1-14

3. The Age of Discovery and the Emergence of the Atlantic World

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   Pages 15-35

4. The Imagination of Matter in the Atlantic World’s Political Economy

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   Pages 37-55

5. Being, Nothingness, and the “Signification of Silence” in African American Religious Consciousness

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   Pages 57-75

6. Epistemologies Opaque: Conjuring, Conjecture, and the Problematic of Nat Turner’s Biblical Hermeneutic

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   Pages 77-96

7. The Mulatto as Material/Sexual Site of Modernity’s Contacts and Exchanges

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   Pages 97-120

8. “The Signification of Silence” Revisited: African American Art and Hermeneutics

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   Pages 121-147

9. The Meaning of the Moan and Significance of the Shout in Black Worship and Culture and Memory and Hope

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   Pages 149-170

10. The Salsa/Jazz/Blues Idiom and Creolization in the Atlantic World

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    Pages 171-193

11. Conclusion

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    Pages 195-200

12. Back Matter

    Pages 201-231

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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.

• culture
• hermeneutics
• identity
• religion

"In Black Religion and the Imagination of Matter in the Atlantic World, Noel engages wide-ranging theoretical and disciplinary frameworks (comparative religions, historical, phenomenological, philosophical, theological, sociological, textual/hermeneutical) to distill from diverse thoughts and analytical lenses a new interdisciplinary approach to the study of Black Atlantic religious experience . . .I suspect that Noel s volume will have a definitive impact upon the field of Black religious studies for many years to come. It will be the one text that scholars of religion might use to cover Black religious experience while simultaneously teaching religious studies theory and methodology." - Dianne M. Stewart, Associate Professor of Religion, Emory University

JAMES A. NOEL is Associate Professor of American Religion at San Francisco Theological Seminary, USA.

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