Global faith, worldly power : Evangelical internationalism and U.S. empire /
Global faith, worldly power : Evangelical internationalism and U.S. empire /
edited by John Corrigan, Melani McAlister, and Axel R. Schäfer.
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, (c)2022.
- 1 online resource (398 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographies and index.
U.S. Evangelical ambitions in transnational context / The meaning of missionary labor : evaluating nineteenth-century global missions in the early twentieth century / Mission, migration, and contested authority : building an AME presence in Haiti in the nineteenth century / American missionaries and the boundaries of Evangelicalism in the Philippines / Make Jesus king and the Evangelical missionary imagination, 1889-1896 / Global Christianity and the Cold War -- Christian globalism, Christian nationalism, and the Ecumenical-Evangelical rivalry / The greatest opportunity since the birth of Christ : American Evangelical missionaries at the dawn of decolonization / Race and the Korean War origins of World Vision Incorporated / Moral minorities : decolonization and the global Evangelical left / Evangelical empire : Christian nationalism and U.S. foreign policy in a postcolonial world / Global Evangelicalism and U.S. Foreign Policy, 1940s-1970s : a review of recent transnational research / PEPFAR, AIDS prevention, and the politics of American compassion in Uganda / Bloody kinship : transnational Copts and American persecution politics / Just like us : Evangelical missions, empathy, and the neoliberal subject / Melani McAlister, Dr Axel R. Schäfer, John Corrigan -- Emily Conroy-Krutz -- Christina Cecelia Davidson -- Tom Smith -- Dana L. Robert -- Gene Zubovich -- Sarah Miller-Davenport -- Helen Jin Kim -- David C. Kirkpatrick -- Lauren F. Turek -- Axel R. Schäfer -- Lydia Boyd -- Candace Lukasik -- John Corrigan.
"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. 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"--
9781469670614 9781469670607
Cold War--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Missions, American--History.
Evangelicalism--History.--United States
Christianity and international relations.
Electronic Books.
BR115 / .G563 2022
Includes bibliographies and index.
U.S. Evangelical ambitions in transnational context / The meaning of missionary labor : evaluating nineteenth-century global missions in the early twentieth century / Mission, migration, and contested authority : building an AME presence in Haiti in the nineteenth century / American missionaries and the boundaries of Evangelicalism in the Philippines / Make Jesus king and the Evangelical missionary imagination, 1889-1896 / Global Christianity and the Cold War -- Christian globalism, Christian nationalism, and the Ecumenical-Evangelical rivalry / The greatest opportunity since the birth of Christ : American Evangelical missionaries at the dawn of decolonization / Race and the Korean War origins of World Vision Incorporated / Moral minorities : decolonization and the global Evangelical left / Evangelical empire : Christian nationalism and U.S. foreign policy in a postcolonial world / Global Evangelicalism and U.S. Foreign Policy, 1940s-1970s : a review of recent transnational research / PEPFAR, AIDS prevention, and the politics of American compassion in Uganda / Bloody kinship : transnational Copts and American persecution politics / Just like us : Evangelical missions, empathy, and the neoliberal subject / Melani McAlister, Dr Axel R. Schäfer, John Corrigan -- Emily Conroy-Krutz -- Christina Cecelia Davidson -- Tom Smith -- Dana L. Robert -- Gene Zubovich -- Sarah Miller-Davenport -- Helen Jin Kim -- David C. Kirkpatrick -- Lauren F. Turek -- Axel R. Schäfer -- Lydia Boyd -- Candace Lukasik -- John Corrigan.
"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. 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"--
9781469670614 9781469670607
Cold War--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Missions, American--History.
Evangelicalism--History.--United States
Christianity and international relations.
Electronic Books.
BR115 / .G563 2022