Automatic religion : : nearhuman agents of Brazil and France / / Paul Christopher Johnson.
What distinguishes humans from nonhumans? Two common answers—free will and religion—are in some ways fundamentally opposed. Whereas free will enjoys a central place in our ideas of spontaneity, authorship, and deliberation, religious practices seem to involve a suspension of or relief from the exerc...
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Johnson, Paul C. (Paul Christopher), 1964- author. Automatic religion : nearhuman agents of Brazil and France / Paul Christopher Johnson. Chicago, Illinois : University of Chicago Press, [2021] ©2021 1 online resource (312 p.) : 23 halftones text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier What distinguishes humans from nonhumans? Two common answers—free will and religion—are in some ways fundamentally opposed. Whereas free will enjoys a central place in our ideas of spontaneity, authorship, and deliberation, religious practices seem to involve a suspension of or relief from the exercise of our will. What, then, is agency, and why has it occupied such a central place in theories of the human? Automatic Religion explores an unlikely series of episodes from the end of the nineteenth century, when crucial ideas related to automatism and, in a different realm, the study of religion were both being born. Paul Christopher Johnson draws on years of archival and ethnographic research in Brazil and France to explore the crucial boundaries being drawn at the time between humans, “nearhumans,” and automata. As agency came to take on a more central place in the philosophical, moral, and legal traditions of the West, certain classes of people were excluded as less-than-human. Tracking the circulation of ideas across the Atlantic, Johnson tests those boundaries, revealing how they were constructed on largely gendered and racial foundations. In the process, he reanimates one of the most mysterious and yet foundational questions in trans-Atlantic thought: what is agency? In English. Introduction: Religion-Like Situations -- Rosalie: Psychiatric Nearhuman -- Juca Rosa: Photographic Nearhuman -- Anastácia: Saintly Nearhuman -- Ajeeb: Automaton Nearhuman -- Chico X: Legal Nearhuman -- Conclusion: Agency and Automatic Freedom. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references and index. Religion Philosophy. Philosophical anthropology. Human beings. Free will and determinism. Automatism. Agent (Philosophy) Act (Philosophy) Brazil Religion 19th century Case studies. brazil, brazilian, france, french, religion, religious studies, history, historical, humanity, humans, nonhumans, free will, freedom, 19th century, automatism, ethnography, archival research, philosophy, morality, ethics, morals, ethical, legalism, legal, gender, race, anthropology, determinism, case study, culture, agency, action, ability, understanding. 0-226-74969-X |
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Introduction: Religion-Like Situations -- Rosalie: Psychiatric Nearhuman -- Juca Rosa: Photographic Nearhuman -- Anastácia: Saintly Nearhuman -- Ajeeb: Automaton Nearhuman -- Chico X: Legal Nearhuman -- Conclusion: Agency and Automatic Freedom. |
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