Exporting the American Gospel is an interdisciplinary study that explores the pervasive influence of Christian fundamentalism in a variety of nations in Africa, Latin America and Asia. The authors explain how American evangelicalism has developed its new fundamentalist forms and then succesfully exported them.

The Carlisle Indian School (1879-1918) was an audacious educational experiment. Lieutenant Richard Henry Pratt, the school's founder and first superintendent, persuaded the federal government that training Native children to accept the white man's ways and values would be more efficient than fighting deadly battles. The result was that the last Indian war would be waged against Native children in the classroom. More than 8,500 children from virtually every Native nation in the United States were taken from their homes and transported to Pennsylvania. Carlisle provided a blueprint for the federal Indian school system that was established across the United States and also served as a model for many residential schools in Canada. The Carlisle experiment initiated patterns of dislocation and rupture far deeper and more profound and enduring than its founder and supporters ever grasped. Carlisle Indian Industrial School offers varied perspectives on the school by interweaving the voices of students' descendants, poets, and activists with cutting-edge research by Native and non-Native scholars. These contributions reveal the continuing impact and vitality of historical and collective memory, as well as the complex and enduring legacies of a school that still affects the lives of many Native Americans.

The Carlisle Indian School (1879-1918) was an audacious educational experiment. Lieutenant Richard Henry Pratt, the school's founder and first superintendent, persuaded the federal government that training Native children to accept the white man's ways and values would be more efficient than fighting deadly battles. The result was that the last Indian war would be waged against Native children in the classroom. More than 8,500 children from virtually every Native nation in the United States were taken from their homes and transported to Pennsylvania. Carlisle provided a blueprint for the federal Indian school system that was established across the United States and also served as a model for many residential schools in Canada. The Carlisle experiment initiated patterns of dislocation and rupture far deeper and more profound and enduring than its founder and supporters ever grasped. Carlisle Indian Industrial School offers varied perspectives on the school by interweaving the voices of students' descendants, poets, and activists with cutting-edge research by Native and non-Native scholars. These contributions reveal the continuing impact and vitality of historical and collective memory, as well as the complex and enduring legacies of a school that still affects the lives of many Native Americans.

As the pressures of globalization are crushing local traditions, millions of uprooted people are buying into a new American salvation product. This fundamentalist Christianity, a fusion of American popular religion and politics, is one of the most significant cultural influences exported from the United States.
This is not "old-time" religion. It is a fresh hybrid of Pentecostal fervor, mainstream evangelicalism, and bible-believing millenialism distributed by modern means: innovative megachurches and parachurches, televangelism and computerized crusades. Engaging in spiritual warfare with their global competitors--Islam, socialism, feminism, secular humanism, and Catholicism--the new fundamentalists are helping to reconfigure the role of the United States in the "new world order."
Is this kind of Christianity equipping its believers to live in free and democratic societies? The authors think not. More likely it is hastening their adaptation to a global culture of consumer gratification. Thefastest-growing, most influential, and most American of the new churches are praying for imminent health and wealth, while displaying indifference to growing poverty and authoritarianism. With illuminating case studies based on extensive field research, "Exporting the American Gospel" demonstrates how Christian fundamentalism has taken hold in many nations across Africa, Latin America and Asia.