Economy of Blood: The Persecuted Church and the Racialization of American Copts. Issue 3 (16th May 2021)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Economy of Blood: The Persecuted Church and the Racialization of American Copts. Issue 3 (16th May 2021)
- Main Title:
- Economy of Blood: The Persecuted Church and the Racialization of American Copts
- Authors:
- Lukasik, Candace
- Abstract:
- ABSTRACT: Since the 1990s, attacks on Egyptian Copts have been made legible to American (particularly evangelical) audiences through the moral imaginary of the "Persecuted Church, " which argues that Christians around the globe are persecuted more than any other time in history. Images of bloodied Egyptian Coptic bodies have circulated among Western Christian religio‐political networks in an "economy of blood, " an imperial economy of Christian kinship that performs the double movement of glory and racialization. This double movement has placed American Copts in a bind, whereby indigenous Coptic collective memory of blood and persecution has intersected with the political, theological, and affective kinship formations of this economy of blood. This article analyzes how the contemporary remapping of Eastern Christian traditions, like that of the Copts, produces effects on a geopolitical scale, and examines how this reconfiguration unfolds whiteness and Western Christianity. [ racialization, Christian kinship, economy of blood, Persecuted Church, American Copts ] RESUMEN: Desde los 1990s, ataques a los coptos egipcios han sido hecho visibles a las audiencias estadounidenses (particularmente evangélicas) a través del imaginario moral de la 'iglesia perseguida", el cual argumenta que los cristianos alrededor del mundo son perseguidos más que en cualquier otro momento en la historia. Imágenes de cuerpos ensangrentados de coptos egipcios han circulado entre redes religio‐políticasABSTRACT: Since the 1990s, attacks on Egyptian Copts have been made legible to American (particularly evangelical) audiences through the moral imaginary of the "Persecuted Church, " which argues that Christians around the globe are persecuted more than any other time in history. Images of bloodied Egyptian Coptic bodies have circulated among Western Christian religio‐political networks in an "economy of blood, " an imperial economy of Christian kinship that performs the double movement of glory and racialization. This double movement has placed American Copts in a bind, whereby indigenous Coptic collective memory of blood and persecution has intersected with the political, theological, and affective kinship formations of this economy of blood. This article analyzes how the contemporary remapping of Eastern Christian traditions, like that of the Copts, produces effects on a geopolitical scale, and examines how this reconfiguration unfolds whiteness and Western Christianity. [ racialization, Christian kinship, economy of blood, Persecuted Church, American Copts ] RESUMEN: Desde los 1990s, ataques a los coptos egipcios han sido hecho visibles a las audiencias estadounidenses (particularmente evangélicas) a través del imaginario moral de la 'iglesia perseguida", el cual argumenta que los cristianos alrededor del mundo son perseguidos más que en cualquier otro momento en la historia. Imágenes de cuerpos ensangrentados de coptos egipcios han circulado entre redes religio‐políticas cristianas occidentales en una "economía de sangre", una economía imperial de parentesco cristiano que representa el movimiento doble de gloria y racialización. Este movimiento doble ha colocado a los coptos estadounidenses en un aprieto, mediante el cual la memoria colectiva copta indígena de sangre y persecución ha intersectado con las formaciones políticas, teológicas y de parentesco afectivo de esta economía de sangre. Este artículo analiza cómo el remapeo contemporáneo de tradiciones cristianas orientales, como la de los coptos, produce efectos en una escala geopolítica, y examina cómo esta reconfiguración envuelve la blancura y el cristianismo occidental. [ racialización, parentesco cristiano, economía de sangre, iglesia perseguida, coptos estadounidenses ] … (more)
- Is Part Of:
- American anthropologist. Volume 123:Issue 3(2021)
- Journal:
- American anthropologist
- Issue:
- Volume 123:Issue 3(2021)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 123, Issue 3 (2021)
- Year:
- 2021
- Volume:
- 123
- Issue:
- 3
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2021-0123-0003-0000
- Page Start:
- 565
- Page End:
- 577
- Publication Date:
- 2021-05-16
- Subjects:
- Anthropology -- Periodicals
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301.05 - Journal URLs:
- http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/1479294.html ↗
http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/1639184.html ↗
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1548-1433 ↗
http://www.jstor.org/journals/00027294.html ↗
http://www.ucpress.edu/journals/3a ↗
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1111/aman.13602 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0002-7294
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- Legaldeposit
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