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04043aam a2200553 i 4500 001 ABA3CB7ECF3111EB9A1890BA3BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210617010040 008 200609t20212021ilua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020026470 020 $a 022674972X 020 $a 9780226749723 020 $a 022674969X 020 $a 9780226749693 035 $a (OCoLC)1143624927 040 $a ICU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a s-bl--- 050 00 $a BD450 $b .J57 2021 082 00 $a 128/.4 $2 23 100 1 $a Johnson, Paul C. $q (Paul Christopher), $d 1964- $e author. 245 10 $a Automatic religion : $b nearhuman agents of Brazil and France / $c Paul Christopher Johnson. 264 1 $a Chicago : $b The University of Chicago Press, $c 2021. 300 $a x, 322 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: Religion-Like Situations -- Rosalie: Psychiatric Nearhuman -- Juca Rosa: Photographic Nearhuman -- Anastacia: Saintly Nearhuman -- Ajeeb: Automaton Nearhuman -- Chico X: Legal Nearhuman -- Conclusion: Agency and Automatic Freedom. 520 $a "Paul C. Johnson begins his new work, Automatic Religion, with the observation that two of the capacities commonly taken to distinguish humans from nonhumans-free will and religion-are fundamentally opposed. Free will enjoys a central place in our ideas of spontaneity, authorship, and the conscious weighing of alternatives. Meanwhile, religion is less a quest for agency than a series of practices--possession rituals being the most spectacular though by no means the only examples--that temporarily relieve individuals of their will. What, then, is agency and why has it occupied such a central place in theories of the human? Based on a dozen years of archival and ethnographic research in Brazil and France, this book tests the boundaries between humans and non-humans in an unlikely series of episodes from the closing decades of the nineteenth century, when ideas related to automatism lurched into motion on multiple tracks and, not incidentally, "religion" as a topic of study was being born. Brazil provided a particularly fertile place for reflection as the nearest site of what Europeans and Euro-Americans too often, too naiÂvely, and too imperially saw as raw nature, and thus also a laboratory of the human. In this context, the French would call Brazil's people monkeys; its slaves were called automatons; and Afro-Brazilian spirit possession priests were classed in the terms of French psychiatry's newly minted terms, dissociation and hysteria. Johnson shows not just how automatons can take on unexpectedly human-like lives when animated but also traces how certain groups have been excluded as less-than-human. In so doing, Johnson reanimates one of the most mysterious and yet foundational questions of trans-Atlantic thought-what is agency?"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Philosophical anthropology. 650 0 $a Human beings. 650 0 $a Agent (Philosophy) 650 0 $a Act (Philosophy) 650 0 $a Free will and determinism. 650 0 $a Religion $x Philosophy. 650 0 $a Automatism. 651 0 $a Brazil $x Religion $y 19th century $v Case studies. 650 7 $a Act (Philosophy) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00796122 650 7 $a Agent (Philosophy) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00800204 650 7 $a Automatism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00822810 650 7 $a Free will and determinism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00933968 650 7 $a Human beings. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00962832 650 7 $a Philosophical anthropology. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01060766 650 7 $a Religion. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01093763 650 7 $a Religion $x Philosophy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01093794 651 7 $a Brazil. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01206830 648 7 $a 1800-1899 $2 fast 655 7 $a Case studies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423765 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317023941.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=ABA3CB7ECF3111EB9A1890BA3BECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search