Paul Christopher Johnson is Associate Professor in the Department of History and the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan, and author of Secrets, Gossip and Gods: The Transformation of Brazilian Candomblé.
7 Ebooks de Paul Christopher Johnson
Paul Christopher Johnson: Diaspora Conversions
By joining a diaspora, a society may begin to change its religious, ethnic, and even racial identifications by rethinking its ‘pasts.’ This pioneering multisite ethnography explores how this phenomen …
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Paul Christopher Johnson: Secrets, Gossip, and Gods
In this wide-ranging book Paul Christopher Johnson explores the changing, hidden face of the Afro-Brazilian indigenous religion of Candombl?. Despite its importance in Brazilian society, Candombl? ha …
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Paul Christopher Johnson & Hugh B. Urban: Routledge Handbook of Religion and Secrecy
Secrecy is a central and integral component of all religious traditions. Not limited simply to religious groups that engage in clandestine activities such as hidden rites of initiation or terrorism, …
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Paul Christopher Johnson & Hugh B. Urban: Routledge Handbook of Religion and Secrecy
Secrecy is a central and integral component of all religious traditions. Not limited simply to religious groups that engage in clandestine activities such as hidden rites of initiation or terrorism, …
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Paul Christopher Johnson: Spirited Things
The word "possession" is anything but transparent, especially as it developed in the context of the African Americas. There it referred variously to spirits, material goods, and people. It …
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Paul Christopher Johnson & Pamela E. Klassen: Ekklesia
Ekklesia: Three Inquiries in Church and State offers a New World rejoinder to the largely Europe-centered academic discourse on church and state. In contrast to what is often assumed, in the Americas …
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€38.51
Paul Christopher Johnson: Automatic Religion
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, autho …
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