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.

Studying Black Religion: Contacts/Exchanges and Continuities/Discontinuities The Age of Discovery and the Emergence of the Atlantic World The Imaginiation of Matter in the Atlantic World's Political Economy Being, Nothingness, and 'The Signification of Silence' in Black Religious Consciousness Epistemologies Opaque: Conjuring, Conjecture, and the Problem of Nat Turner's Biblical Hermeneutic The Mulatto 'The Signification of Silence' Revisited: Black 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

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