Deleuze, Guattari and the Machine in Early Christianity
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-23388-1 (ISBN)
The reconstruction of the historical emergence of early Christianity, Bradley H. McLean argues, has been constrained by traditional assumptions about its historical and transcendental origins. These assumptions are ill-suited to theorizing the genesis, change and transformation of early Christianity in the first three centuries of the Common Era. To capture the dynamism of early Christianity, McLean applies Guattari’s concept of the ‘machine’, to the analysis of early Christianity. Arguing that machines are both an unnoticed dimension of early Christianity, and a major analytical tool for the discipline, McLean highlights the potential of the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari to challenge and reconfigure not just our knowledge of early Christianity, but all aspects of Hellenistic Judaism, and the Greco-Roman world, as well as our understanding of Jesus of Nazareth and the Jesus movement.
By subverting the concept of a single transcendental or historical origin of Christianity, this book facilitates new forms of dialogue and cooperation between Christians and co-religionists.
Bradley H. McLean is Professor of New Testament Language and Literature at Knox College, University of Toronto, Canada.
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. The Rise of the Christ Machines
2. Desiring Production and Early Christianities
3. The Rhizome: Multiplicities and the Virtual Dimension of Christ Groups
4. The Autoproduction of a Body of Christ without Organs
5. Territorializations and Deterritorializations: On Becoming Outlandish
6. Deterritorialization in the Gospels: A Typology of Lines
7. The Stratification of Christ Groups in the Despotic Socius
8. Christ Groups as Social Assemblages and Abstract Machines
9. The God of Religion and the Schizo God
10. The Myth of Eve: Falling Into, and Out of, Delusion
11. On Several Regimes of Signs and Several Christs
12. The Despotic Christ and the Signifying Despotic Regime of Signs
13. The Passional Christ and the Passional Subjective Regime of Signs
14. What Can Christ’s Body Do?
15. Molecular Becomings of Christ: Becoming-woman
16. Christ Becoming-animal: An Affair of Sorcery
17. Christ’s Becomings-imperceptible: Martyrological, Magical, and Cosmic
18. The Nomad Jesus and the Galilean War Machine
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 09.02.2024 |
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| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike | |
| Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-23388-9 / 1350233889 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-23388-1 / 9781350233881 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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