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About this book
An exploration of how ordinary U.S. Christians create global connections through the multibillion-dollar child sponsorship industry
Child 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.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Brief Note about Language
- Introduction
- 1. Love and Sin: Sense and Sentimentalism in Christian Globalism
- Interlude: Belinda Coles (Cortlandt, New York) and Belinda Coles (Millsburgh, Liberia)
- 2. Systems and Statistics: Aggregate Numbers and Particular Objects
- 3. Food and Famine: The Visual/Visceral Production of Humanitarianism
- 4. Family and Friendship: Kin-like Relations and Racialized Universalism
- 5. Materialism and Consumption: Circulating Christian Love with American Things
- 6. Trust and Aspiration: Tracking the Results of Global Projects
- Interlude: Rizal Cruz (Baroy, Mindanao) and Carol Millhouse (Springfield, Massachusetts)
- 7. Synchrony and Territory: Spatiotemporal Elements of Global Unity
- Conclusion: Globalism, Made and Remade
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix A: Methodology
- Appendix B: Organizational Summaries
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index