{"id":374,"date":"2015-03-02T15:52:15","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T20:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pamelaklassen.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=374"},"modified":"2019-08-29T13:20:14","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T17:20:14","slug":"374","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pamelaklassen.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/2015\/03\/02\/374\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood: The Element of Christianity"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Christianity \u2014 based not only on the crucifixion but also on the incarnation \u2014 is a complex social imaginary whose power depends on the combined control and celebration of the maternal body. Reading blood \u2014 conceptual or otherwise \u2014 through death without also reading it through birth has profound political consequences that reassert and even revitalize the violent innocence of Christianity that Anidjar seeks to critique.<\/p>\n

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For Blood: The Element of Christianity. A Forum on Gil Anidjar\u2019s\u00a0Blood: A Critique of Christianity<\/em><\/a>, edited by Nina Caputo, I wrote a response entitled ‘Fertile Blood’; find it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Christianity \u2014 based not only on the crucifixion but also on the incarnation \u2014 is a complex social imaginary whose power depends on the combined control and celebration of the maternal body. Reading blood \u2014 conceptual or otherwise \u2014 through death without also reading it through birth has profound political consequences that reassert and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":375,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-publications","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamelaklassen.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamelaklassen.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamelaklassen.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamelaklassen.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamelaklassen.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pamelaklassen.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505,"href":"https:\/\/pamelaklassen.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions\/505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamelaklassen.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamelaklassen.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamelaklassen.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamelaklassen.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}