{"product_id":"conversionary-sites-britt-halvorson-9780226557267","title":"Conversionary Sites: Transforming Medical Aid and Global Christianity from Madagascar to Minnesota","description":"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, \u003ci\u003eConversionary Sites\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A nuanced critique of the ambivalent relationships among religion, capitalism, and humanitarian aid, \u003ci\u003eConversionary Sites\u003c\/i\u003e draws important connections between religion and science, capitalism and charity, and the US and the Global South. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Britt Halvorson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 022655726X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226557267\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/28\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2019","brand":"Britt Halvorson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48086417211647,"sku":"9780226557267","price":38.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bd5fe499-3ae6-419b-9e57-62ff654e7c59.jpg?v=1769094556","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/conversionary-sites-britt-halvorson-9780226557267","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}