Black religion and the imagination of matter in the Atlantic World 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 worlds political economy Being nothingness and the signification of silence in African American religious consciousness Epistemologies opaque : conjuring conjecture and the problematic of Nat Turners Biblical hermeneutic The mulatto as material sexual site of modernitys 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