{"product_id":"christian-globalism-at-home-hillary-kaell-9780691201450","title":"Christian Globalism at Home: Child Sponsorship in the United States","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn exploration of how ordinary U.S. Christians create global connections through the multibillion-dollar child sponsorship industry\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChild sponsorship emerged from nineteenth-century Protestant missions to become one of today's most profitable private fund-raising tools in organizations including World Vision, Compassion International, and ChildFund. Investigating two centuries of sponsorship and its related practices in American living rooms, churches, and shopping malls, \u003ci\u003eChristian Globalism at Home\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the myriad ways that Christians who don't travel outside of the United States cultivate global sensibilities. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKaell traces the movement of money, letters, and images, along with a wide array of sponsorship's lesser-known embodied and aesthetic techniques, such as playacting, hymn singing, eating, and fasting. She shows how, through this process, U.S. Christians attempt to hone globalism of a particular sort by oscillating between the sensory experiences of a God's eye view and the intimacy of human relatedness. These global aspirations are buoyed by grand hopes and subject to intractable limitations, since they so often rely on the inequities they claim to redress. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBased on extensive interviews, archival research, and fieldwork, \u003ci\u003eChristian Globalism at Home\u003c\/i\u003e explores how U.S. Christians imagine and experience the world without ever leaving home.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hillary Kaell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0691201455\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691201450\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/09\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 5.90w x 1.00d","brand":"Hillary Kaell","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48136144388351,"sku":"9780691201450","price":132.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_17152720-7d1c-4ebc-ae65-552d1130a6cd.jpg?v=1770160807","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/christian-globalism-at-home-hillary-kaell-9780691201450","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}