Religious Voices in the Politics of International Development, 1st ed. 2021 Faith-Based NGOs as Non-state Political and Moral Actors Palgrave Studies in Religion, Politics, and Policy Series
Auteur : Nelson Paul J.
This first study of faith-based development NGOs? (FBOs) political roles focuses on how U.S. FBOs in international development educate and mobilize their constituencies. Most pursue cautious reformist agendas, but FBOs have sometimes played important roles in social movements. Nelson unpacks those political roles by examining the prominence of advocacy in the organizations, the issues they address and avoid, their transnational relationships, and their relationships with religious and secular social movements. The agencies that educate and mobilize U.S. constituencies most actively are associated with small Christian sects or with non-Christian minority faiths with historic commitments to activism or service. Specialized advocacy NGOs play important roles, and emerging movements on immigration and climate may represent fresh political energy. The book examines faith-based responses to the crises of climate change, COVID-19, and racial injustice, and argues that these will shape the future of religion as a moral and political force in America, and of NGOs in international development.
Religious Voices
Between Silence and Protest
Chapter 2 Religion, Development and Faith-based organizations
Religion and Development
Religion’s influence: Beliefs, institutions, and practices
“World religions”: Changing patterns, dynamism, and influence
Religion and Politics: The United States and Beyond
Contemporary religious voices in US Policy
Religion, mobilization and politics in the rich countries
Perspectives on NGOs
Marketplace
Global socio-political systems
Shared values, identities, and trust
Institutions: organizational affiliation and institutional rootedness
Why Faith-based NGOs?
Religion, FBOs and development agencies
Chapter 3 Faith-based identities
FBOs as religious and as organizations
Types of faith based organizations in international charitable action
FBOs: The players
Human rights NGOs and religionInternational FBOs: Balancing professional and religious identities
Faith-based NGOs: four big issues
Whom to serve? Universal or communal?
Individual transformation and social change
Proselytizing
Religious belief, culture, and staffing
NGOs’ institutional ties to religion: a typology
Chapter 4 Encouraging Active Citizen Voices on International Policy? The Record of U.S. Faith-based NGOs
FBOs, Religious Organizations, and Political Voice
Four models of religious political voice on international affairs
Faith-based NGOs as Advocates
Record and limitations
Independent issue-focused groups
Mobilizing or marginalizing religious citizen action?
Chapter 5 Agendas and Strategies: Prophetic voices and cautious reformers
Understanding FBO Advocacy: Theory and Motivations
Why FBO advocacy?
Method: Categorizing Advocacy Issues
Public policy advocacy agendas: Findings
FBO and Secular NGO Agendas
A Closer Look: “Advocating Against Hunger”
Benchmarks: Two broad agendas on food security
Faith-based food security agendas
Agendas in comparative perspective
Chapter 6 Global Religions and National Politics
NGOs, Politics, Religion and International Development
FBO Families
Transnational relationships in religious communities
Universal Faiths and Sources of Variation
Legal-institutional framework
Public Opinion on Religion and PoliticsFaith-based Identities and Political Voice
Advocacy issue agendas
Advocacy alliances
Universal Faiths and National Politics
Chapter 7 Beyond Advocacy? Mobilizing Compassion
What We Know: Religion, volunteering and mobilizationMethodology
Findings: What are FBOs Asking of Supporters?The FBOs and the actions they encourage
Transformative Work in Action: Some Themes and Cases
Faith in the Marketplace: Consumers and Investors
Simplicity
Impact investingFair trade
Divesting fossil fuels, investing in energy access
Some Implications
Chapter 8 Religious Movements and FBOs: The Climate Threat and Covid-19
Social Movements, Religion, and FBOsWhat resources do faith-based NGOs deploy?
Three Contemporary movements
Jubilee debt campaign
Sanctuary movements
Save Darfur Coalition
Climate and Energy Access: A cause struggles to become a movement
COVID-19: Prophetic voices in a pandemic?
FBOs in a Society in Crisis: Racial Justice
Chapter 9 Conclusions
FBOs, Religious identities and US politics
Limiting Factors: Agendas and communication
FBOs and potential for mass action
Lessons from most active mobilizers
Paul J. Nelson is Associate Professor of International Development at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA), University of Pittsburgh, USA. Before joining the university in 1998 he worked for several faith-related non-governmental organizations (NGOs). He has published research on the World Bank, transnational NGO advocacy, religion and development, human rights-based development, and the Sustainable Development Goals.
Provides the first systematic study of the political voice of faith-based international humanitarian groups
Analyzes the gaps and the linkages between social movements on global debt and immigration policy, and the established faith-based NGOs
Highlights the limitations and the impact of religion and faith-based charities as a force for global justice and human rights
Shows how faith-based NGOs – the charities that respond to global crises in the name of religion – can affect the moral and political voice of religious constituencies
Connects the rich literature on NGOs as non-state political actors to debates on religious and faith-based humanitarianism
Date de parution : 04-2022
Ouvrage de 225 p.
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Disponible chez l'éditeur (délai d'approvisionnement : 15 jours).
Prix indicatif 126,59 €
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faith-based organizations; International Development; FBO; NGO; Non-Governmental Organizations; insider-lobbying; religious community; public policy; advocacy; social policy; humanitarian groups; faith-based charity; global justice; Religion and politics; Religion & Development; global South; donor societies; volunteering; poor communities; Non-profit