Synopses & Reviews
International aid and development is increasingly channelled through religious groups and this collection examines the role that these faith-based organizations play in managing international aid, providing services, such as health and education, defending human rights and protecting democracy. Focusing on Asia, Africa and the Middle East, this book argues that greater engagement with faith communities and organizations is needed, particularly in achieving the Millennium Development Goals, and questions the traditional securalism that has underpinned development policy and practice in the North.
Synopsis
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.
Synopsis
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
About the Author
GERARD CLARKE is Senior Lecturer in Development Studies at the School of the Environment and Society, Swansea University. MICHAEL JENNINGS is Lecturer in International Development and African Politics at the Centre for Development Studies, Swansea University.
Table of Contents
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