Paul C Johnson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3597338 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul C Johnson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul C |
| FAMILY NAME | Johnson |
| SIGNATURE | JOHNSON P C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Thinking with Ngangas
Automaton Religion and the National Body
July 01 2022 Automaton Religion and the National Body: Ajeeb in Brazil Paul Christopher Johnson Paul Christopher Johnson Paul Christopher Johnson is Professor of History and the Doctoral Program in Anthropology and History at the University of Michigan; editor of the journal Comparative Studies in Society and History; and author of Secrets, Gossip, and Gods: The Transformation of Brazilian Candomblé (Oxford University Press, 2002), Diaspora Conve…
Kicking, Stripping, and Re-Dressing a Saint in Black
L'A. se penche sur le probleme de la relation entre le christianisme et la sphere publique au Bresil par le biais de la representation des saints. Laicite et nationalisme s'affrontent dans ce domaine : les decouvertes de statues ont mis a jour le developpement de saints locaux et nationaux. D'un autre cote, le processus de secularisation en mouvement dans l'histoire bresilienne a aussi conditionne et limite ces representations religieuses : l'A. …
Migrating Bodies, Circulating Signs
The Garifuna, formerly called the Black Carib, are descendants both of Africans and of Carib Indians who shared the island of St Vincent in the Caribbean. The central extension for Garifuna ancestor religion is in deterritorialization, through labour migrations. For Garifuna ancestor religion, the circulation of bodies in migration led to new signifiers applied to ritual at home. Beginning in the 1980s, evangelicalism has gained a strong footing,…
Automatisme
Cet article porte sur l’attrait « religieux » de l’automatisme. À la fin du XIXe siècle, le langage, les idées et figures de l’ «automatisme » (automatique, automate, automatisme) proliférèrent. Cet ensemble réunissait différents domaines jusqu’alors séparés, de la personnnalité individuelle à la mécanique industrielle, et de la psychiatrie aux théories sur la religion et sa pratique. Il contribua à produire une distinction fondamentale entre des…
Scholars Possessed! On Writing Africana Religions with the Left Hand
Consequential categories like "Africana religions" emerge from a calibration of religious practices with ethnographic writing practices. Attending to the processes of writing Africana religions warrants close attention because it is mostly through such second-order representations that "Africana religions" enter the broader comparative field of the study of religion. These representations exert force as durable indexes of religion and race. For e…
"Uma genealogia atlântica da "possessão de espíritos
Theorizing Africana Religions
These edited proceedings of a 2013 symposium at Northwestern University are organized around the question of how to theorize the study of Africana religions across wide expanses of time and space. An international body of scholars representing the fields of history, religious studies, anthropology, American studies, sociology, African studies, classics, and African American studies gathered in a two-day event to consider the past, present, and fu…
Searching for Africa in Brazil
Black Blood Brothers
Peer Reviewed
The Garifuna, A Nation Across Borders
The Knife (1997 Fiction Contest, Honorable Mention)
Kicking, Stripping, and Re-Dressing a Saint in Black
Notes (and Questions) on Participant Observation from Urban Brazil
The 'exotic' is uncannily close ...'1 'Anthropologists in particular are viewed with profound distrust by ever-growing segments of the Candomblé2community ...'3
Mama Lola
Shamanism from Ecuador to Chicago
This article has three objectives: (1) to give ethnographic accounts of shamanism as practised by the Shuar of Ecuador and of one group of contemporary urban Americans who take the Shuar, as well as other indigenous groups, as their models: (2) to present a critical comparison of those practices; and (3) most importantly, to suggest methodological criteria by which such dislocated 'neo-shamanisms' might be usefully distinguished from indigenous s…
Millenarian Vision, Capitalist Reality
Shamanism from Ecuador to Chicago
This article has three objectives: (1) to give ethnographic accounts of shamanism as practised by the Shuar of Ecuador and of one group of contemporary urban Americans who take the Shuar, as well as other indigenous groups, as their models: (2) to present a critical comparison of those practices; and (3) most importantly, to suggest methodological criteria by which such dislocated 'neo-shamanisms' might be usefully distinguished from indigenous s…
"Uma genealogia atlântica da "possessão de espíritos
Scholars Possessed! On Writing Africana Religions with the Left Hand
Consequential categories like "Africana religions" emerge from a calibration of religious practices with ethnographic writing practices. Attending to the processes of writing Africana religions warrants close attention because it is mostly through such second-order representations that "Africana religions" enter the broader comparative field of the study of religion. These representations exert force as durable indexes of religion and race. For e…
Notes (and Questions) on Participant Observation from Urban Brazil
The 'exotic' is uncannily close ...'1 'Anthropologists in particular are viewed with profound distrust by ever-growing segments of the Candomblé2community ...'3
Kicking, Stripping, and Re-Dressing a Saint in Black
Millenarian Vision, Capitalist Reality
Mama Lola
Shamanism from Ecuador to Chicago
This article has three objectives: (1) to give ethnographic accounts of shamanism as practised by the Shuar of Ecuador and of one group of contemporary urban Americans who take the Shuar, as well as other indigenous groups, as their models: (2) to present a critical comparison of those practices; and (3) most importantly, to suggest methodological criteria by which such dislocated 'neo-shamanisms' might be usefully distinguished from indigenous s…
Notes (and Questions) on Participant Observation from Urban Brazil
The 'exotic' is uncannily close ...'1 'Anthropologists in particular are viewed with profound distrust by ever-growing segments of the Candomblé2community ...'3
Kicking, Stripping, and Re-Dressing a Saint in Black
The Knife (1997 Fiction Contest, Honorable Mention)
The Garifuna, A Nation Across Borders
Black Blood Brothers
Peer Reviewed
Searching for Africa in Brazil
Theorizing Africana Religions
These edited proceedings of a 2013 symposium at Northwestern University are organized around the question of how to theorize the study of Africana religions across wide expanses of time and space. An international body of scholars representing the fields of history, religious studies, anthropology, American studies, sociology, African studies, classics, and African American studies gathered in a two-day event to consider the past, present, and fu…
"Uma genealogia atlântica da "possessão de espíritos
Automatisme
Cet article porte sur l’attrait « religieux » de l’automatisme. À la fin du XIXe siècle, le langage, les idées et figures de l’ «automatisme » (automatique, automate, automatisme) proliférèrent. Cet ensemble réunissait différents domaines jusqu’alors séparés, de la personnnalité individuelle à la mécanique industrielle, et de la psychiatrie aux théories sur la religion et sa pratique. Il contribua à produire une distinction fondamentale entre des…
Scholars Possessed! On Writing Africana Religions with the Left Hand
Consequential categories like "Africana religions" emerge from a calibration of religious practices with ethnographic writing practices. Attending to the processes of writing Africana religions warrants close attention because it is mostly through such second-order representations that "Africana religions" enter the broader comparative field of the study of religion. These representations exert force as durable indexes of religion and race. For e…
Kicking, Stripping, and Re-Dressing a Saint in Black
L'A. se penche sur le probleme de la relation entre le christianisme et la sphere publique au Bresil par le biais de la representation des saints. Laicite et nationalisme s'affrontent dans ce domaine : les decouvertes de statues ont mis a jour le developpement de saints locaux et nationaux. D'un autre cote, le processus de secularisation en mouvement dans l'histoire bresilienne a aussi conditionne et limite ces representations religieuses : l'A. …
Migrating Bodies, Circulating Signs
The Garifuna, formerly called the Black Carib, are descendants both of Africans and of Carib Indians who shared the island of St Vincent in the Caribbean. The central extension for Garifuna ancestor religion is in deterritorialization, through labour migrations. For Garifuna ancestor religion, the circulation of bodies in migration led to new signifiers applied to ritual at home. Beginning in the 1980s, evangelicalism has gained a strong footing,…
Automaton Religion and the National Body
July 01 2022 Automaton Religion and the National Body: Ajeeb in Brazil Paul Christopher Johnson Paul Christopher Johnson Paul Christopher Johnson is Professor of History and the Doctoral Program in Anthropology and History at the University of Michigan; editor of the journal Comparative Studies in Society and History; and author of Secrets, Gossip, and Gods: The Transformation of Brazilian Candomblé (Oxford University Press, 2002), Diaspora Conve…
Thinking with Ngangas
Sociology (13 works) · Anthropology (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · History (7 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (6 works) · Art (6 works) · Art history (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Religious studies (5 works) · Diaspora (4 works)