TY - BOOK AU - Kaell,Hillary TI - Christian Globalism at Home: Child Sponsorship in the United States SN - 9780691201474 AV - BV639.P6 U1 - 362.77569091724 23 PY - 2020///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - Church charities KW - United States KW - History KW - Church work with poor children KW - Developing countries KW - Church work with the poor KW - Globalization KW - Religious aspects KW - Christianity KW - Poor children KW - Services for KW - Public welfare KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General KW - bisacsh KW - Arissa Oh KW - Britt Halvorson KW - Catherine Ceniza Choy KW - Christian Children’s Fund KW - Christian Human Rights KW - Christian Imperialism KW - Christian missions KW - Conversionary Sites KW - David Hollinger KW - David P. King KW - Emily Conroy-Krutz KW - Global Families KW - God’s Internationalists KW - Julia Irwin KW - Laura Briggs KW - Lisa Malkki KW - Living Faithfully in an Unjust World KW - Making the World Safe KW - Melani McAlister KW - Melissa Caldwell KW - Protestants Abroad KW - Raising the World KW - Robert Orsi KW - Samaritan’s Purse KW - Samuel Moyn KW - Sarah Fieldston KW - Somebody’s Children KW - The Kingdom of God Has No Borders KW - The Need to Help KW - To Save the Children of Korea KW - U.S. Christianity KW - Unbound KW - anthropology of Christianity KW - anthropology of religion KW - child sponsors KW - global Christianity KW - humanitarianism KW - reflective mirroring KW - reflexive mirroring N1 - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; ABBREVIATIONS --; BRIEF NOTE ABOUT LANGUAGE --; INTRODUCTION --; CHAPTER 1. Love and Sin --; CHAPTER 2. Systems and Statistics --; CHAPTER 3. Food and Famine --; CHAPTER 4. Family and Friendship --; CHAPTER 5. Materialism and Consumption --; CHAPTER 6. Trust and Aspiration --; INTERLUDE. Rizal Cruz (Baroy, Mindanao) and Carol Millhouse (Springfield, Massachusetts) --; CHAPTER 7. Synchrony and Territory --; CONCLUSION. Globalism, Made and Remade --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; APPENDIX A. Methodology --; APPENDIX B. Organizational Summaries --; NOTES --; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX; restricted access N2 - An exploration of how ordinary U.S. Christians come to feel globally connected through the multibillion-dollar child sponsorship industryChristian Globalism at Home looks at the massive charitable industry that is Christian child sponsorship, from its growth in nineteenth-century Protestant missions to its status as one of today’s most profitable private fundraising tools. Investigating two centuries of sponsorship and its related practices in American living rooms, churches, and shopping malls, Hillary Kaell examines the myriad ways that Christians who don’t travel outside of the United States have cultivated global connections, and the ethical and ideological questions involved.Popular child sponsorship organizations, including World Vision, Compassion International, and ChildFund, raise billions of dollars and circulate millions of letters and photos around the world annually. Kaell traces the movement of money, letters, and images, along with a wide array of the lesser-known techniques of sponsorship, 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691201474?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691201474 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691201474/original ER -