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Humanitarianism

Wintrup, “Speaking With Vampires and Angels”

Wintrup, James. 2019. “Speaking With Vampires and Angels: The Ambient Afterlives of Christian Humanitarianism in Rural Zambia.” History and Anthropology.  Abstract: During …

February 8, 2020 ndca-admin

Halvorson, “Conversionary Sites”

Halvorson, Britt. Conversionary Sites: Transforming Medical Aid and Global Christianity from Madagascar to Minnesota. 2018. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. …

May 23, 2018 ndca-admin

Klaits, ed. The Request and the Gift in Religious and Humanitarian Endeavors

Klaits, Frederick, ed. The Request and the Gift in Religious and Humanitarian Endeavors (New York: Palgave Macmillan, 2017) Publisher’s Description: …

August 3, 2017 ndca-admin

Lauterbach, “Religion and Displacement in Africa”

Lauterbach, Karen.  2014.  Religion and Displacement in Africa: Compassion and Sacrifice in Congolese Churches in Kampala, Uganda.  Religion and Theology …

November 24, 2014 ndca-admin

Scherz, “Let us make God our banker”

Scherz, China. 2013. Let us make God our banker: Ethics, temporality, and agency in a Ugandan charity home. American Ethnologist …

November 7, 2013 ndca-admin

McAlister, “Humanitarian Adhocracy, Transnational New Apostolic Missions, and Evangelical Anti-Dependency in a Haitian Refugee Camp”

McAlister, Elizabeth. 2013. Humanitarian Adhocracy, Transnational New Apostolic Missions, and Evangelical Anti-Dependency in a Haitian Refugee Camp. Nova Religio: The Journal of …

June 11, 2013 ndca-admin

Halvorson, “Wovern Worlds”

Halvorson, Britt. 2012. Woven Worlds: material things, bureaucratization, and dilemmas of caregiving in Lutheran humanitarianism. American Ethnologist 39(1): 122-137. Abstract: …

February 28, 2012 ndca-admin

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Sacred Heart - Naomi Haynes
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