LEADER 03710nam 2200613 450 001 9910727268703321 005 20210831174426.0 010 $a0-226-74986-X 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226749860 035 $a(CKB)4100000011623697 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6384653 035 $a(DE-B1597)571682 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226749860 035 $a(OCoLC)1204141414 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011623697 100 $a20210316d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAutomatic religion $enearhuman agents of Brazil and France /$fPaul Christopher Johnson 210 1$aChicago, Illinois :$cUniversity of Chicago Press,$d[2021] 210 4$dİ2021 215 $a1 online resource (312 p.) $c23 halftones 311 1 $a0-226-74969-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: Religion-Like Situations -- Rosalie: Psychiatric Nearhuman -- Juca Rosa: Photographic Nearhuman -- Anasta?cia: Saintly Nearhuman -- Ajeeb: Automaton Nearhuman -- Chico X: Legal Nearhuman -- Conclusion: Agency and Automatic Freedom. 330 $aWhat 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? 606 $aReligion$xPhilosophy 606 $aPhilosophical anthropology 606 $aHuman beings 606 $aFree will and determinism 606 $aAutomatism 606 $aAgent (Philosophy) 606 $aAct (Philosophy) 607 $aBrazil$xReligion$y19th century$vCase studies 610 $abrazil, brazilian, france, french, religion, religious studies, history, historical, humanity, humans, nonhumans, free will, freedom, 19th century, automatism, ethnography, archival research, philosophy, morality, ethics, morals, ethical, legalism, legal, gender, race, anthropology, determinism, case study, culture, agency, action, ability, understanding. 615 0$aReligion$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aPhilosophical anthropology. 615 0$aHuman beings. 615 0$aFree will and determinism. 615 0$aAutomatism. 615 0$aAgent (Philosophy) 615 0$aAct (Philosophy) 676 $a128.4 700 $aJohnson$b Paul C$g(Paul Christopher),$f1964-$01214908 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910727268703321 996 $aAutomatic religion$93382056 997 $aUNINA