Global faith, worldly power : Evangelical internationalism and U.S. empire /

"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 conservat...

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Other Authors: Corrigan, John, 1952- (Editor), McAlister, Melani, 1962- (Editor), Schäfer, Axel R. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: U.S. Evangelical ambitions in transnational context / Melani McAlister, Dr Axel R. Schäfer, John Corrigan
  • America's Missionary Impulse. The meaning of missionary labor : evaluating nineteenth-century global missions in the early twentieth century / Emily Conroy-Krutz
  • Mission, migration, and contested authority : building an AME presence in Haiti in the nineteenth century / Christina Cecelia Davidson
  • American missionaries and the boundaries of Evangelicalism in the Philippines / Tom Smith
  • Make Jesus king and the Evangelical missionary imagination, 1889-1896 / Dana L. Robert
  • Global Christianity and the Cold War. Christian globalism, Christian nationalism, and the Ecumenical-Evangelical rivalry / Gene Zubovich
  • The greatest opportunity since the birth of Christ : American Evangelical missionaries at the dawn of decolonization / Sarah Miller-Davenport
  • Race and the Korean War origins of World Vision Inc. / Helen Jin Kim
  • Moral minorities : decolonization and the global Evangelical left / David C. Kirkpatrick
  • Evangelical empire : Christian nationalism and U.S. foreign policy in a postcolonial world / Lauren F. Turek
  • Evangelicals in the Neoliberal Order. Global Evangelicalism and U.S. Foreign Policy, 1940s-1970s : a review of recent transnational research / Axel R. Schäfer
  • PEPFAR, AIDS prevention, and the politics of American compassion in Uganda / Lydia Boyd
  • Bloody kinship : transnational Copts and American persecution politics / Candace Lukasik
  • Just like us : Evangelical missions, empathy, and the neoliberal subject / John Corrigan.