Christian Globalism at Home (eBook)

Child Sponsorship in the United States

Hillary Kaell (Autor)

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2020
312 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20147-4 (ISBN)

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An exploration of how ordinary U.S. Christians create global connections through the multibillion-dollar child sponsorship industryChild sponsorship emerged from nineteenth-century Protestant missions to become one of today's most profitable private fund-raising tools in organizations including World Vision, Compassion International, and ChildFund. Investigating two centuries of sponsorship and its related practices in American living rooms, churches, and shopping malls, Christian Globalism at Home reveals the myriad ways that Christians who don't travel outside of the United States cultivate global sensibilities.Kaell traces the movement of money, letters, and images, along with a wide array of sponsorship's lesser-known embodied and aesthetic techniques, such as playacting, hymn singing, eating, and fasting. She shows how, through this process, U.S. Christians attempt to hone globalism of a particular sort by oscillating between the sensory experiences of a God's eye view and the intimacy of human relatedness. These global aspirations are buoyed by grand hopes and subject to intractable limitations, since they so often rely on the inequities they claim to redress.Based on extensive interviews, archival research, and fieldwork, Christian Globalism at Home explores how U.S. Christians imagine and experience the world without ever leaving home.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.6.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 37 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: activism • Adjective • Adult • Advertising • Ambivalence • americans • anthropologist • anthropology of Christianity • Anthropology of Religion • Arissa Oh • Baptists • Britt Halvorson • camp meeting • Capitalism • Catherine Ceniza Choy • Catholic Church • Catholic Social Teaching • Charismatic Christianity • ChildFund • child sponsors • Child sponsorship • Christian • Christian Children’s Fund • Christian Human Rights • Christian imperialism • Christianity • Christian Mission • Christian Missions • Christmas Card • Church World Service • Colonialism • Compassion International • Compassion International (Taiwan) • Consumerism • Conversionary Sites • courtesy • David Hollinger • David P. King • deity • Disgust • Donor • emergency management • Emily Conroy-Krutz • Employment • evangelicalism • Evangelism • Fundraising • Global Christianity • global connections • Global Families • Globalism • Globalization • God • God’s Internationalists • Gratitude • His Family • Humanitarian aid • humanitarianism • humility • income • Individualism • infomercial • Institution • Irreligion • Jews • Julia Irwin • Latin America • Laura Briggs • Lauren Berlant • Liberation Theology • Lisa Malkki • Literature • Living Faithfully in an Unjust World • mainline Protestant • Make a Difference • Making the World Safe • Marketing • meal • Melani McAlister • Melissa Caldwell • Mindanao • Mirroring (psychology) • Missionary • Missionary (LDS Church) • Modernity • Mrs. • narrative • Neoliberalism • Non-governmental organization • optimism • organization • orphanage • Orthography • Paganism • Pamphlet • Pastor • paternalism • Pentecostalism • People in Need (Czech Republic) • photography • pietism • Poverty • Protestantism • Protestants Abroad • Publicity • Racism • Raising the World • reflective mirroring • reflexive mirroring • Religion • rhetoric • Robert Orsi • Samaritan's Purse • Samaritan’s Purse • Samuel Moyn • Sarah Fieldston • Save the Children • short-term mission • Somebody’s Children • Subjectivity • Suggestion • Sunday school • Supporter • Susan Sontag • Technology • Terminology • The Heathen • The Kingdom of God Has No Borders • The Need to Help • Theology • The Other Hand • To Save the Children of Korea • unbound • United States • U.S. Christianity • Website • World Vision International • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20147-1 / 0691201471
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20147-4 / 9780691201474