Conversionary Sites - Transforming Medical Aid and Global Christianity from Madagascar to Minnesota Halvorson BrittPevná vazba
Conversionary Sites - Transforming Medical Aid and Global Christianity from Madagascar to Minnesota Halvorson BrittPevná vazba Drawing on more than two years of participant observation in the…
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Conversionary Sites - Transforming Medical Aid and Global Christianity from Madagascar to Minnesota Halvorson BrittPevná vazba
Drawing on more than two years of participant observation in the American Midwest and in Madagascar among Lutheran clinicians, volunteer laborers, healers, evangelists, and former missionaries, Conversionary Sites investigates the role of religion in the globalization of medicine. Creatively blending perspectives on humanitarianism, global medicine, and the anthropology of Christianity, she argues that the cultural spaces created by these programs operate as multi-stranded "conversionary sites," where questions of global inequality, transnational religious fellowship, and postcolonial cultural and economic forces are negotiated.A nuanced critique of the ambivalent Based on immersive research of a transnational Christian medical aid program, Britt Halvorson tells the story of a thirty-year-old initiative that aimed to professionalize and modernize colonial-era evangelism.