He Has Made the Dry Bones Live
Orientalism's Attempted Resuscitation of Eastern Christianity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8201615 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christopher Johnson (0000-0002-2972-3072, corresponding author), C D L Johnson |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 82 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 811-840 |
| Publication date | 2014-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7189 • E-ISSN: 1477-4585 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jaarel/lfu036 |
| OpenAlex | W2313605632 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 7 |
While there has been much scholarship on Orientalism in relation to Islam and other non-Christian religions, the relationship between Orientalism and Eastern forms of Christianity has rarely received any scholarly attention. Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century scholarship and travel writing from the United States and Britain contain countless descriptions of Eastern Christianity that make use of Orientalist tropes, but also attempt to reconcile what the authors saw as two mutually exclusive categories: Oriental and Christian. This article argues that the rhetoric employed in these accounts portrays Eastern Christianity using somatic language as a body that paradoxically lies between life (Christianity) and death (the Orient), and can only be resuscitated by Western intervention.
Archaeology · Art · Christianity · Islam · Literature · Orientalism · Political science · Relation (database) · Rhetoric · Scholarship · Theology · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies
| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2022 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |