This article explores how white US Christians’ home displays, including their decorative presentation of paintings, small sculptures, and other memorabilia of foreign travel, play a critical role in representing imperial geographies. Drawing upon long-term ethnographic research on the current aid partnership between Lutherans in the US and Madagascar, which stems from American Lutheran mission work in southern Madagascar (1888–2004), the article studies the relationship of contemporary white Minnesotans’ home displays about Madagascar with more historically-established projects of colonial knowledge production. The visual dimensions of materiality have been significant for building traces and imaginaries of far-flung places for home or metropole audiences in Christian colonization. Thus, by placing theories of Christian souvenirs and devotional objects in dialogue with work on Christian colonialism, the author examines home displays as a lesser-considered aspect of the colonial project in the metropole and considers the problems they raise for contemporary efforts to decolonize Christianity.

本文探讨了美国白人基督徒的家庭陈列，包括装饰性绘画作品，小雕塑和其他外国旅行纪念品，如何在代表帝国地理方面发挥关键作用。本文基于对美国路德派人与马达加斯加之间当前援助伙伴关系的长期人种学研究，该研究源于美国路德派在马达加斯加南部的宣教工作（1888年至2004年），研究了当代白人明尼苏达州人对马达加斯加的家庭展示的关系。具有更多历史悠久的殖民地知识生产项目。物质的视觉维度对于为基督教殖民地的家庭或大都会观众建造遥远的地方留下痕迹和想象是非常重要的。从而，