عنوان

Christianity:

Number

LA121592

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

Christianity:

General Material Designation

[Article]

Other Title Information

"A Manner of Dividing the Sensible"

First Statement of Responsibility

Andrew Gow

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Leiden

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Brill

Text of Note

Anidjar's Blood can be read, with Amy Hollywood, as a political intervention designed to alienate and creatively reuse the familiar terms 'blood' and 'Christianity' to mean quite different things, namely a set of biologically, emotionally, and politically charged metaphors circulating within and fuelling a hegemonic cultural world system. While this is a clear possible reading throughout, Anidjar provides an explicit key to justify these meanings only on page 258, allowing that he has used each term as 'catachresis'- to command our attention but also to redirect it. Contrary to Francis Landy's wish that Andijar provide an accounting of how (actual) blood in (actual) Christian tradition relates to blood in Judaism, I suggest that Anidjar's project requires nothing of the sort, working as it does at an entire level of abstraction above the plane of paratactically organized and comparable 'religions'. Anidjar's Blood can be read, with Amy Hollywood, as a political intervention designed to alienate and creatively reuse the familiar terms 'blood' and 'Christianity' to mean quite different things, namely a set of biologically, emotionally, and politically charged metaphors circulating within and fuelling a hegemonic cultural world system. While this is a clear possible reading throughout, Anidjar provides an explicit key to justify these meanings only on page 258, allowing that he has used each term as 'catachresis'- to command our attention but also to redirect it. Contrary to Francis Landy's wish that Andijar provide an accounting of how (actual) blood in (actual) Christian tradition relates to blood in Judaism, I suggest that Anidjar's project requires nothing of the sort, working as it does at an entire level of abstraction above the plane of paratactically organized and comparable 'religions'.

Date of Publication

2019

Physical description

299-303

Title

Method & Theory in the Study of Religion

Volume Number

31/3

International Standard Serial Number

1570-0682

Subject Term

Catachresis

Subject Term

Cultural hegemony

Subject Term

Metaphor

Subject Term

Mondialatinisation

Subject Term

Religion

Andrew Gow

Call Number

10.1163/15700682-12341447

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[Article]

275578

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