Global Faith, Worldly Power: Evangelical Internationalism and U.S. Empire Corrigan John
Global Faith, Worldly Power: Evangelical Internationalism and U.S. Empire Corrigan John Assessing the grand American evangelical missionary venture to convert the world, this international group of…
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Global Faith, Worldly Power: Evangelical Internationalism and U.S. Empire Corrigan John
Assessing the grand American evangelical missionary venture to convert the world, this international group of leading scholars reveals how theological imperatives have intersected with worldly imaginaries from the nineteenth century to the present. They show, too, how evangelicals' international activism redefined the content and the boundaries of the movement itself. Countering the stubborn notion that conservative Protestant groups have steadfastly maintained their distance from governmental and economic affairs, these experts show how believers' ambitious investments in missionizing and humanitarianism have connected with worldly matters of empire, the Cold War, foreign policy, and neoliberalism.
evangelicals took on more pluralistic, multidirectional identities not only abroad but also As evangelical voices from Africa, Asia, and Latin America became more vocal and assertive, U.S.