Soul by Soul: The Evangelical Mission to Spread the Gospel to Muslims

U.S.-born Protestant evangelicalism has gone global to an extent of which many might be unaware. In doing so it has become part of the story of the global reverberations of the post-9/11 era. In Soul by Soul: The Evangelical Mission to Spread the Gospel to Muslims, journalist Adriana Carranca tells the story of American evangelicals’ mobilization to proclaim Christianity “to the ends of the Earth,” a movement that triumphed in the Global South, challenged the Vatican, and then turned east after 9/11 to spread the Gospel among Muslims. As the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq set off a wave of anti-American attacks, increasing the risks for missionaries from the United States, thousands of disciples, particularly from Latin America, carried on the missionary work. Soul by Soul follows the pilgrimage of one such missionary family from Brazil to Afghanistan.

Join New America's Future Security Program as they welcome Adriana Carranca, author of Soul by Soul, to discuss the book and the evangelical movement’s experience in the Muslim world. Carranca is a journalist whose writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic, Granta, and other publications. She is the recipient of the Overseas Press Club Scholars Award and has five books published in Portuguese, including Afghanistan after the Taliban and Iran under the Chador, and has spent a decade reporting from the field along Christian-Muslim faultlines in the Middle East, Asia and Africa, where contemporary religious wars are being silently fought. The conversation will be moderated by New America Vice President and Arizona State University Professor of Practice Peter Bergen.

Join the conversation online using #SoulbySoul and following @NewAmericaISP.

PARTICIPANTS

Adriana Carranca
Author, Soul by Soul: The Evangelical Mission to Spread the Gospel to Muslims

MODERATOR

Peter Bergen
Vice President, New America
Co-Director, Future Security
Professor of Practice, Arizona State University