Cowboys and Indians: Indian Priests in Rural Montana

Thomas, Sonja

doi:10.1353/wsq.2019.0028

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“…The work of differentiation done by some Copts gestures towards the power of whiteness, as a structure of assimilation, to mold sensibilities, relationships, and practices and avoid the gaze of suspicion (Thomas 2019). Sarah Gualtieri (2009, 31) has examined how the first wave of (primarily Christian) Syrian immigrants to the United States chose to stake their claim to citizenship on the basis of membership in the "white race" because "there was something compelling, even alluring, about whiteness that went beyond the strategic and the practical."…”

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Economy of Blood: The Persecuted Church and the Racialization of American Copts

Lukasik

2021

American Anthropologist

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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,

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Economy of Blood: The Persecuted Church and the Racialization of American Copts

Lukasik

2021

American Anthropologist

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Power Circuits: Asymmetries of Global Christianity

Lukasik,

Bruner

2023

Journal of the American Academy of Religion

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This article examines the idea of global Christianity in scholarship and the postcolonial and present imperial conditions that underlie it. Through an analysis of the fields of World Christianity and the anthropology of Christianity, it considers how Western Christian histories and power dynamics have impacted Christian traditions of the Global South and seriously considers the pervasive logics of geopolitical power that transform local contexts–not only altering how such communities and traditions are written about, but also impacting the traditions, practices, and people themselves. Thinking with Coptic Orthodox Christians between Egypt and the United States and Born-Again Christians in Uganda, this article examines how global power inequalities in the circuits of ideas, forms of life, and theopolitics are integral to thinking about the idea of global Christianity and its variations in scholarship.

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Cowboys and Indians: Indian Priests in Rural Montana

Cited by 2 publications

References 22 publications

Economy of Blood: The Persecuted Church and the Racialization of American Copts

Economy of Blood: The Persecuted Church and the Racialization of American Copts

Power Circuits: Asymmetries of Global Christianity

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