"the U.S. is the primary source and symbol of most of what passes as “globalization” in the planetary popular imagination." (66)
"the worldwide spread of a peculiarly American brand (in both origin and form) of Christianity— that is, Evangelical Protestantism." (66)
"American-based, para-church, mission, and humanitarian organizations" (66)
"Although the evidence appears to support the claim that Evangelical Protestantism is a thoroughly indigenized global phenomenon, Western (predominantly American) missionary and para-church organizations, operating in a manner similar to that of multinational, non-governmental organizations and corporations, continue to constitute a primary source of material resources" (66)
"the centers of American Evangelicalism, while by no means the center of worldwide Evangelicalism, nevertheless continue to form the backbone of a transnational religious movement." (67)
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"American Evangelicals as the vanguard of American military, economic, and cultural power across the planet" (70)
claims that tensions amongst different American corporations reflected in globalization (74)
"Promoting abroad many of the controversial issues American Evangelical organizations champion at home, they actively export social and political agendas regarding abortion, the family, sexuality, education, and the like." (75)
suggests that there is tension between evangelicals in humanitarian aid and those in mission work over the benefits of capitalism and technology (77-81)
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"the quantifying, organizing, and evaluating techniques of social science not only provide the authority by which action is justified but also supply an idiom by which “the work” is accomplished on a day-to-day basis. The employment of the language and techniques of social science are as frequent among the Evangelical globalizers as among anyone else." (82)
refers to the use of the language of rights and needs by evangelical agencies. (84-85)
"Surprisingly, most Evangelical organizations express their mission and work in terms more typical of multinational corporations than religious organizations." (85)
"Another component of the market idiom appears in the frequent equation of the believer with consumeR" (86)
"The elites in the vanguard of globalization are aware of the historical heavy-handedness of American or Western organizations and are eager to temper both the image and reality of their work as a form of cultural imperialism. Balancing the moral appeal to universal rights and needs, then, is a tendency to indigenize their brands, organizational identities, and constituencies. It is here where we see a common recourse to an idiom rooted in multiculturalism, one that focuses on sensitivity to local cultures" (87)
"In attempting to fulfill the great biblical injunctive to “go into all the world” the American Evangelicals cannot help bestowing more than the teachings of their founder; they are carrying into the world an unintended gospel of modernity—the institutional and normative structure of the present world ordeR" (90)
