TY  - BOOK
AU  - Anidjar,Gil
TI  - Blood: a critique of Christianity
T2  - Religion, Culture, and Public Life
SN  - 9780231537254
AV  - BR115.B57 .A55 2014 
U1  - 230 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Blood
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Essence, genius, nature
KW  - Miscellanea
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Sang
KW  - Aspect religieux
KW  - Christianisme
KW  - Essence, esprit, nature
KW  - Miscellanées
KW  - Livres numériques
KW  - e-books
KW  - aat
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christian Theology
KW  - Systematic
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - General
KW  - HISTORY / Middle East / General
KW  - fast
KW  - Trivia and miscellanea
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Table of Contents; Preface: Why I Am Such a Good Christian; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Red Mythology; Part One. The Vampire State; 1. Nation (Jesus' Kin); 2. State (The Vampire State); 3. Capital (Christians and Money); Part Two. Hematologies; 4. Odysseus' Blood; 5. Bleeding and Melancholia; 6. Leviathan and the Blood Pump; Conclusion: On the Christian Question (Jesus and Monotheism); Notes; Index
N2  - Blood, in Gil Anidjar's argument, maps the singular history of Christianity. A category for historical analysis, blood can be seen through its literal and metaphorical uses as determining, sometimes even defining, Western culture, politics, and social practices and their wide-ranging incarnations in nationalism, capitalism, and law. Engaging with a variety of sources, Anidjar explores the presence and the absence, the making and unmaking of blood in philosophy and medicine, law and literature, and economic and political thought, from ancient Greece to medieval Spain, from the Bible to S
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