Spirit gives a name to outside forces that impinge on inner will. Even more, it undoes the very idea of…
Paul Christopher Johnson
Paul Christopher Johnson is professor in the history, Afroamerican and African Studies, and the doctoral program in anthropology and history at the University of Michigan. Working between historical and anthropological modes on issues from secrecy to diaspora to diversely mediated forms of agency, Johnson has done long-term fieldwork in Brazil and Honduras, and shorter-term fieldwork in the Bronx and Paris. He is the author of Secrets, Gossip and Gods: The Transformation of Brazilian Candomblé (Oxford, 2002), Diaspora Conversions: Black Carib Religion and the Recovery of Africa (California, 2007), Ekklesia: Three Inquiries on Church and State (Chicago, 2018), with Winnifred Fallers Sullivan and Pamela E. Klassen; and, most recently, Automatic Religion: Nearhuman Agents of Brazil and France (Chicago, 2021).
Latest posts
Ekklesia: An introduction
March 8, 2018
Ekklesia: Three Inquiries in Church and State takes the tenacious rubric of “church and state” and examines it through a…
Democracity, 2042
December 22, 2017
In view of present conditions, I was asked by the Committee to file a historian’s report. I regret to say…