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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. 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. Creatively
blending perspectives on humanitarianism, global medicine, and the
anthropology of Christianity, she argues that the cultural spaces
created by these programs operate as multistranded "conversionary
sites," where questions of global inequality, transnational
religious fellowship, and postcolonial cultural and economic forces
are negotiated. A nuanced critique of the ambivalent relationships
among religion, capitalism, and humanitarian aid, Conversionary
Sites draws important connections between religion and science,
capitalism and charity, and the US and the Global South.
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. 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. Creatively
blending perspectives on humanitarianism, global medicine, and the
anthropology of Christianity, she argues that the cultural spaces
created by these programs operate as multistranded "conversionary
sites," where questions of global inequality, transnational
religious fellowship, and postcolonial cultural and economic forces
are negotiated. A nuanced critique of the ambivalent relationships
among religion, capitalism, and humanitarian aid, Conversionary
Sites draws important connections between religion and science,
capitalism and charity, and the US and the Global South.
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