This dialogue between scholars Robbie Goh and Hillary Kaell covers the lure of the international, “agglomerative impulses,” and attachments to…
Hillary Kaell
Hillary Kaell is Associate Professor of anthropology and religion at McGill University and a faculty fellow at Concordia University’s Centre for Sensory Studies. She writes about North American Christianity, often focusing on how Christians make and imagine global connections. She is author of Walking Where Jesus Walked: American Christians and Holy Land Pilgrimage (New York University Press, 2014) and, most recently, Christian Globalism at Home: Child Sponsorship in the United States (Princeton University Press, 2020). Follow her at @hillarykaell.
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On the power of aggregates
February 6, 2018
For Christians—and moderns of many types—meditating on big numbers opens the possibility of pulling back to vertiginous heights that approximate…