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, economy of blood, Persecuted Church, American Copts]

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血腥经济：受迫害的教会与美国科普特人的种族化

自 1990 年代以来，通过“受迫害教会”的道德想象，美国（特别是福音派）观众可以清楚地看到对埃及科普特人的攻击，该组织认为全球基督徒受到的迫害比历史上任何时候都多。血腥的埃及科普特人尸体的图像在西方基督教宗教政治网络中以“血统经济”流传，这是一种基督教亲属关系的帝国经济，执行着荣耀和种族化的双重运动。这种双重运动使美国科普特人陷入困境，土著科普特人对血统和迫害的集体记忆与这种血统经济的政治、神学和情感亲属关系形成交叉。本文分析了当代对东方基督教传统的重新映射，如科普特人的传统，在地缘政治范围内产生影响，并研究这种重新配置如何展开白人和西方基督教。[种族化、基督教血缘关系、血缘经济、受迫害的教会、美国科普特人]