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Development, Civil Society and Faith-Based Organizations

Part of the International Political Economy Series Book Series

Editors: Clarke, Gerard; Jennings, Michael

DOI: 10.1057/9780230371262

ISBN: 978-1-349-28608-9

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Nov 17, 2015

1 - 10 of 12 Chapters

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Introduction

Clarke, Gerard; Jennings, Michael

Pages: 1 –16

[This is a book about positive synergies long neglected and obscured in development discourse and policy. It is about the pivotal role of ‘faith-based’ or religiously inspired organizations in existing or nascent civil societies, and the commonalities between ‘faith’ and ‘development’ as...
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Faith-Based Organizations and International Development: An Overview

Clarke, Gerard

Pages: 17 –45

[Development studies has traditionally neglected the role of religion and faith and its role in the lives of the poor throughout the developing world. Like other social sciences, it was heavily influenced by ‘secularization theory’, the belief (in Wilson’s classic formulation) that ‘religious...
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Intelligent Design?: A Gender-Sensitive Interrogation of Religion and Development

Pearson, Ruth; Tomalin, Emma

Pages: 46 –71

[Development policy, in terms of international development cooperation, as well as the operations of multilateral, bilateral and mainstream non-governmental development agencies, has tended to focus on the material and political outcomes of development with little reference to the religious...
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The Language of Development: What are International Development Agencies Talking About?

Linden, Ian

Pages: 72 –93

[It is commonplace today to find the categories ‘religious’ and’ secular’ dealt with as two givens indicating an important distinction. A sub-set of this binary opposition between two — usually undefined — categories is to be found in the growing interest in ‘faith-based’ organizations (FBO) and...
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The Spirit of Brotherhood: Christianity and Ujamaa in Tanzania

Jennings, Michael

Pages: 94 –116

[Looking at Africa today, it is hard to imagine that in the early 1960s, the place of Christianity in Africa was believed by some to be under threat. As Paul Gifford has written, ‘Thirty years ago, it was commonly thought that Christianity in independent Africa would become ever less significant,...
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Engaged Citizenship: The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) in the Post-Authoritarian Philippines

Moreno, Antonio F.

Pages: 117 –144

[In speaking of the mainline African Churches above vis-à-vis democratization, Archbishop Desmond Tutu seems to portray accurately a prevailing impression of the Church leadership’s role in the transition to democracy and a continuing search for strategic directions in the post-authoritarian...
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FBOs and Change in the Context of Authoritarianism: The Islamic Center Charity Society in Jordan

Clark, Janine A.

Pages: 145 –170

[Throughout much of the Middle East, faith-based charities affiliated with Islamist groups and/or parties comprise some of the largest and most effective organizations addressing the needs of the poor. Jordan is no exception, with the Islamic Center Charity Society (ICCS), the charity of the...
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Who’s Afraid of Religion? Tensions between ‘Mission’ and ‘Development’ in the Norwegian Mission Society

Hovland, Ingie

Pages: 171 –186

[There has been a recent surge of interest in the topic ‘faiths and development’ in the United Kingdom, at universities and research institutes as well as in the UK Department for International Development (DFID). This interest throws up a series of new questions within development studies and...
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Saudi Arabian NGOs in Somalia: ‘Wahabi’ Da’wah or Humanitarian Aid?

Kroessin, Mohammed R.; Mohamed, Abdulfatah S.

Pages: 187 –213

[In the Western world, both the Geneva Conventions and the Red Cross-sponsored ‘Code of Conduct for NGOs in Disaster Relief’ are seen to provide the mandate and operational framework for humanitarian action. However, a renewed linking of aid and broader political goals, common during the Cold...
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Faith-Based Organizations as Effective Development Partners? Hezbollah and Post-War Reconstruction in Lebanon

Harb, Mona

Pages: 214 –239

[Defining Hezbollah as a faith-based organization (FBO) may seem unusual as it is normally labelled by many Westerners as a terrorist organization and is thus rarely examined as an ‘ordinary’ or legitimate political player. Yet, this is the position I adopt here. This chapter considers Hezbollah...

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