Why I am Such a Good Christian
Comments on Gil Anidjar, Blood: A Critique of Christianity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12201854 |
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| Authors | Francis Landy (University of Alberta Canada, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 281-298 |
| Publication date | 2018-07-11 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Method & Theory in the Study of Religion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0943-3058 • E-ISSN: 1570-0682 |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/15700682-12341451 |
| OpenAlex | W2865263030 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 20 |
Gil Anidjar begins his immensely ambitious book Blood with a strange statement/question “Why I am Such a Good Christian.” I begin by examining this question for its implications for cultural hybridity, for myself as well as for Anidjar, through the lens of Anidjar’s concluding discussion of Freud’s Moses and Monotheism . On the way I critically explore Anidjar’s insistence that blood is not a signifier of kinship or ancestry in the Hebrew Bible or in Judaism, and argue that both are in fact much more complex. I suggest also that Christianity has other elements than blood, such as the bread of the Eucharist, and that Anidjar devotes little attention to the differences between Protestant and Catholic Christianity. I conclude by reverting to Freud’s account of an experience of innocence in The Interpretation of Dreams , as indicative of Freud’s ambivalent position between Judaism and Christianity
Ambivalence · Christianity · Confession (law · Interpretation (philosophy · Islam · Judaism · Kinship · Monotheism · Protestantism · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Theology · Anthropology · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Development, Ethics, and Society · History · Philosophy · Psychology · Religious studies · Theological Perspectives and Practices · Religious Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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