Automaton Religion and the National Body: Ajeeb in Brazil

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 Conversions: Black Carib Religion and the Recovery of Africa (University of California Press, 2007), and, most recently, Automatic Religion: Nearhuman Agents of Brazil and France (University of Chicago Press, 2021).