Affiliation

Associate professor, Department of Anthropology听and School of Religious Studies听(海角社区)

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.

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Contact information

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

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Selected publications

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

Kaell, Hillary (ed.).听Everyday Sacred: Religion in Contemporary Quebec, 海角社区-Queens University Press, 2017.

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

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Recent publications

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

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

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

鈥淎ftermath: Studying Life after Pilgrimage,鈥� in ed. Ant贸n M. Pazos, Religious Pilgrimages in the Mediterranean World, 158-172. Abingdon UK/New York: Routledge, 2023.

鈥溾��, History and Anthropology, 2023.

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

鈥淩esilience: Ecology and Morality on Climate-Vulnerable Coasts,鈥� (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.

鈥溾��, American Anthropologist, January 2021. Print forthcoming.

鈥淭he Holy Childhood Association on Earth and in Heaven: Catholic Globalism in Nineteenth-century North America,鈥� American Quarterly 72(4) 2020: 827-851.

鈥淩enamed: The Living, the Dead, and the Global in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Christianity,鈥� American Historical Review 125(3) 2020: 815-839.

鈥�,鈥� Ethnos, June 2020. Print forthcoming.