LEADER 03733nam 22007095 450 001 9910838235303321 005 20230126215918.0 010 $a0-226-55743-X 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226557434 035 $a(CKB)4100000004817025 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5219283 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001983374 035 $a(DE-B1597)521333 035 $a(OCoLC)1037272802 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226557434 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000004817025 100 $a20191022d2018 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aConversionary Sites $eTransforming Medical Aid and Global Christianity from Madagascar to Minnesota /$fBritt Halvorson 210 1$aChicago : $cUniversity of Chicago Press, $d[2018] 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a1 online resource (298 pages) 225 1 $aChicago scholarship online 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2018. 311 $a0-226-55726-X 311 $a0-226-55712-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction. Conversionary Sites in Global Christianities -- $tChapter One. Remembering and Forgetting through Medical Aid Work -- $tChapter Two. Becoming Humanitarians -- $tChapter Three. Redeeming Medical Waste, Making Medical Relief -- $tChapter 4. Restructuring Value in Antananarivo -- $tChapter Five. Translating Aid, Brokering Identity -- $tConclusions. Aid's End Times -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aDrawing on more than two years of participant observation in the American Midwest and in Madagascar among Lutheran clinicians, volunteer laborers, healers, evangelists, and former missionaries, Conversionary Sites investigates the role of religion in the globalization of medicine. Based on immersive research of a transnational Christian medical aid program, Britt Halvorson tells the story of a thirty-year-old initiative that aimed to professionalize and modernize colonial-era evangelism. Creatively blending perspectives on humanitarianism, global medicine, and the anthropology of Christianity, she argues that the cultural spaces created by these programs operate as multistranded "conversionary sites," where questions of global inequality, transnational religious fellowship, and postcolonial cultural and economic forces are negotiated. A nuanced critique of the ambivalent relationships among religion, capitalism, and humanitarian aid, Conversionary Sites draws important connections between religion and science, capitalism and charity, and the US and the Global South. 410 0$aChicago scholarship online. 606 $aMedical assistance, American$zMadagascar 606 $aFaith-based human services$zMadagascar 606 $aFaith-based human services$zMinnesota 606 $aMissions, Medical$zMadagascar 606 $aMissions, Medical$xSocial aspects 610 $aChristianity. 610 $aColonialism. 610 $aFaith based aid. 610 $aGlobal medicine. 610 $aHumanitarianism. 610 $aMadagascar. 610 $aMedical relief. 610 $aUnited States. 610 $aValue. 610 $aWaste economies. 615 0$aMedical assistance, American 615 0$aFaith-based human services 615 0$aFaith-based human services 615 0$aMissions, Medical 615 0$aMissions, Medical$xSocial aspects. 676 $a266 700 $aHalvorson$b Britt, $01727771 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910838235303321 996 $aConversionary Sites$94135596 997 $aUNINA