Immobile Global

Christian Globalism at Home in the United States

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2259759
AutoresHillary Kaell (0009-0003-9271-2653, McGill University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen123
Número2
Páginas250-262
Fecha de publicación2021-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmerican Anthropologist (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0002-7294 • E-ISSN: 1548-1433
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/aman.13540
OpenAlexW3129428174
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas67

Drawing on research with Christian child sponsors in the United States, this article explores the everyday techniques that work global commitments into being. It argues that global projects are compelling in how they tack back and forth between states associated with differing scales: the "immensity" of a God's-eye view and a grounded view of human relatedness. Both are emotive and often embodied forms; however, the former lifts one outside humanness, while the latter seems to deepen connections with people far away. These modes are illustrated through the Christian use of statistical aesthetics and foodways. In the process, this article seeks to undo the persistent assumption that being global is natural to contemporary US evangelicalism. At a broader level, it contributes to a growing body of work that positions "transcendental orientations" (Keane 2015) as integral to the "world-making" (Tsing 2005) through which people make and imagine global connections, whether they travel or not. [globalization, embodiment, humanitarianism, Christianity, United States

Aesthetics · Christianity · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Globalism · Globalization · Political science · Sociology · Transcendental number · History · Law · Philosophy · Religion, Society, and Development · Religious Tourism and Spaces · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development