Clarke / Jennings / Shaw Development, Civil Society and Faith-Based Organizations

Bridging the Sacred and the Secular
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-230-37126-2
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 279 Seiten, Web PDF

Reihe: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection

This book examines the role of faith-based organizations in managing international aid, providing services, defending human rights and protecting democracy. It argues that greater engagement with faith communities and organizations is needed, and questions traditional secularism that has underpinned development policy and practice in the North.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clarke, G.

Jennings, M.

Shaw, T.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; G.Carey Introduction; G.Clarke & M.Jennings Faith-Based Organizations and International Development: An Overview; G.Clarke Intelligent Design?: A Gender-Sensitive Interrogation of Religion and Development; R.Pearson & E.Tomalin The Language of Development: What Are International Development Agencies Talking About?; I.Linden The Spirit of Brotherhood: Christianity and Ujamaa in Tanzania; M.Jennings Engaged Citizenship: The Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) in the Post-Authoritarian Philippines; A.Moreno FBOs and Change in the Context of Authoritarianism: The Islamic Centre Charity Society in Jordan; J.Clark Who's Afraid of Religion? Tensions Between Mission and Development in The Norwegian Mission Society; I.Hovland Saudi Arabian NGOs at Work in Somalia: 'Wahabi' Da'wah or Humanitarian Aid?; A.Mohamed with M.Kroessin Faith-Based Organizations as Effective Development Partners? Hezbollah and Post-War Reconstruction in Lebanon; M.Harb Hindu Nationalism and the Social Welfare Strategy; C.Jaffrelot Conclusion; G.Clarke & M.Jennings

Über Autor(innen)

GEORGE CAREY was Archbishop of Canterbury 1991 to 2002, UK
JANINE CLARK is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Guelph, Ontario
MONA HARB is Assistant Professor at the Department of Architecture and Design at the American University of Beirut (AUB), Lebanon
INGIE HOVLAND teaches on Women, Men and Christianity at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK
CHRISTOPHE JAFFRELOT is Director of CERI (Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales) at Sciences Po (Paris), France, and Research Director at the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), France
MOHAMMED KROESSIN is Research Associate at the Religions & Development Research Programme at the University of Birmingham, UK
IAN LINDEN is Associate Professor at the School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London, UK
ABDULFATAH MOHAMED is Director of the London-based Al-Muntada Al-Islami Trust (UK)
ANTONIO MORENO is President of the Ateneo de Zamboanga University, Philippines
RUTH PEARSON is Professor of Development Studies and Director of the Centre for Development Studies at the University of Leeds, UK
EMMA TOMALIN is Lecturer in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Leeds, UK