03733nam 22007095 450 991083823530332120230126215918.00-226-55743-X10.7208/9780226557434(CKB)4100000004817025(MiAaPQ)EBC5219283(StDuBDS)EDZ0001983374(DE-B1597)521333(OCoLC)1037272802(DE-B1597)9780226557434(EXLCZ)99410000000481702520191022d2018 fg engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierConversionary Sites Transforming Medical Aid and Global Christianity from Madagascar to Minnesota /Britt HalvorsonChicago : University of Chicago Press, [2018]©20181 online resource (298 pages)Chicago scholarship onlinePreviously issued in print: 2018.0-226-55726-X 0-226-55712-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Conversionary Sites in Global Christianities -- Chapter One. Remembering and Forgetting through Medical Aid Work -- Chapter Two. Becoming Humanitarians -- Chapter Three. Redeeming Medical Waste, Making Medical Relief -- Chapter 4. Restructuring Value in Antananarivo -- Chapter Five. Translating Aid, Brokering Identity -- Conclusions. Aid's End Times -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexDrawing 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, Conversionary Sites 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. A nuanced critique of the ambivalent relationships among religion, capitalism, and humanitarian aid, Conversionary Sites draws important connections between religion and science, capitalism and charity, and the US and the Global South. Chicago scholarship online.Medical assistance, AmericanMadagascarFaith-based human servicesMadagascarFaith-based human servicesMinnesotaMissions, MedicalMadagascarMissions, MedicalSocial aspectsChristianity.Colonialism.Faith based aid.Global medicine.Humanitarianism.Madagascar.Medical relief.United States.Value.Waste economies.Medical assistance, AmericanFaith-based human servicesFaith-based human servicesMissions, MedicalMissions, MedicalSocial aspects.266Halvorson Britt, 1727771DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910838235303321Conversionary Sites4135596UNINA