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Axis “Immigration, living conditions, and religion”

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Hillary Kaell

Associate member

Portrait of Professor Hillary Kaell

Affiliation

Associate professor, Department of Anthropologyand School of Religious Studies(۲ݮƵ University)

Research interests

Christianity; Messianic Judaism; Ecology, Material and sensory studies; Anthropology of religion; Capitalism and consumption; Space, place and landscape; Global networks and imaginaries; North America, primarily the United States and Quebec.

Contact information


hillary.kaell [at] mcgill.ca (> E-mail)

> Institutional page

Selected publications


Kaell, Hillary. Christian Globalism at Home: Child Sponsorship in the United States,Princeton University Press, 2020.

Kaell, Hillary (ed.).Everyday Sacred: Religion in Contemporary Quebec, ۲ݮƵ-Queens University Press, 2017.

Kaell, Hillary. Walking Where Jesus Walked: American Christians and Holy Land Pilgrimage, New York University Press, 2014.

Recent publications


“Young People, Religious and Globalization: Transforming Self, Transforming the World” Special Issue (co-editors Charles Mercier and Jean-Philippe Warren), Social Sciences and Missions (SSM) 36 (1) 2023

“In the Capital of Closed Churches: Heritage Buildings as Social Entrepreneurship in Quebec,” in eds. Maren Freudenberg and Astrid Reuter, Social Forms in American and European Christianity. Bielefeld, Germany and London UK: Transcript, under review.

“Humanitarianism Between the World Wars,” in eds. Cara Burnidge and Lauren Turek, The Routledge History of U.S. Religion and Politics, New York: Routledge, under review. “Religion Performed: The World's Columbian Exposition of 1893” (with David Walker), in ed. Thomas Dubois, A Cultural History of Religion in the Age of Empire, London: Bloomsbury, in press.

“Aftermath: Studying Life after Pilgrimage,” in ed. Antón M. Pazos, Religious Pilgrimages in the Mediterranean World, 158-172. Abingdon UK/New York: Routledge, 2023.

“”, History and Anthropology, 2023.

“Mapping the Field of Religion, Globalization and Youth Agency: Introduction,” Special Issue (with Charles Mercier and Jean-Philippe Warren), Social Sciences and Missions (SSM) 36 (1) 2023: 1-15.

“Resilience: Ecology and Morality on Climate-Vulnerable Coasts,” (with Philip Campanile), Contending Modernities (University of Notre Dame), 2023.Kaell, Hillary. Christian Globalism at Home: Child Sponsorship in the United States, Princeton University Press, 2020.

“”, American Anthropologist, January 2021. Print forthcoming.

“The Holy Childhood Association on Earth and in Heaven: Catholic Globalism in Nineteenth-century North America,” American Quarterly 72(4) 2020: 827-851.

“Renamed: The Living, the Dead, and the Global in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Christianity,” American Historical Review 125(3) 2020: 815-839.

“,” Ethnos, June 2020. Print forthcoming.

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