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1 Online-Ressource (364 Seiten)
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1st ed
ISBN:
9783748907633
Serie:
Religion - Wirtschaft - Politik v.20
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Cover -- From a Quiet Revolution to the Tolerance of Ambiguity: Religious NGOs in International Development Discourse -- A Quiet Revolution -- The Reluctant Discovery of Religion -- The Great Global Transformation -- RNGOs' Abilities in Sustainable Development -- Tolerance of Ambiguity -- Multireligious Case-Studies -- Outline of the Volume -- Section I: Religious NGOs and International Development Politics -- Religious Engagement in Development Work: A Continuing Journey -- Introduction: the "resurgence" of interest in religious matters -- Definition challenges -- Global agendas, religious involvement -- The religious landscape in development work -- A bumpy path to religious engagement -- Eight live topics to address on religious engagement -- Religion and violence -- Motivations and boundaries: the issue of Proselytizing -- Controversies on gender -- Coordination and harmonization -- Governance issues -- Instrumentalization debates -- Human rights -- Debates about models -- The United Nations and Development: What do Religious Actors Add to Debates about Achieving Better Outcomes? -- Introduction -- Development concerns at the United Nations -- The World Bank, the WCC and the MDGs -- The World Bank, the WCC and SDGs: Building Cooperation between Religious and Secular Development Actors -- Conclusion -- Transculturation Grammars in Secular and Religious Development NGOs -- 1 Introduction -- Development -- Religion -- Spirituality -- Secularity -- 2 The "balancing identity" skill -- 2.1 Elements of cultural anthropology and the sociology of religions -- 2.2 Elements of communication skills -- 3 The differentiation skill: "fundamentalist vs fundamental" -- 3.1 Conceptualizing religion -- 3.2 Fundamentalist and fundamental -- 3.3 Fundamentalism and fundamental options: sociology of comparative religions -- 3.4 The fundamentalist radicality
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i. Cognitive level: binary thinking -- ii. Social level: proselyte dynamism -- iii. Psychological aspects: hardening around morals -- iv. Strategic procedures: eradicating the stigmatised reality -- 3.5 The fundamental option -- i. Theological cognitive level: axiological difference between the "divine milieu" and subsequent socio-political manifestations -- ii. Social level: empathic availability -- iii. Psychological level: the right to difference -- iv. Strategic level: beauty of compromise -- 3.6 Findings on the "fundamentalist vs fundamental" shift -- 4 Development NGOs during the Rwandan genocidal processes -- 4.1 Fundamentalist Rwandan radicality -- i. A binary doctrinal argument -- ii. Socio-political consequences -- iii. Psychology hardening around morals -- iv. Police and military consequences -- 4.2 Fundamental options in the Rwandan context -- i. The encompassing "divine milieu" -- ii. Fundamental empathy -- iii. Solidarity in difference -- iv. Political level -- 5 Outcomes and new beginnings on development and religion issues -- Section II: Mapping RNGOs in Diverse Religious Traditions -- Islam and Development: International Muslim NGOs -- Introduction -- The Emergence of International Muslim NGOs -- International Muslim NGOs in the Post 9/11 Aid Field -- International Muslim NGOs and the Global War on Terror -- Religious NGOs in the Field of Development and Humanitarian Aid -- International Islamic Relief Organisation: 'It's all in Islam!' -- A dignified life and a strengthened umma -- "Islam is about the spiritual and social matters" -- "They don't have the same feeling of family as we have" -- Islamic Relief: "We have an understanding of religion that gives us an advantage" -- "Lasting routes out of poverty" -- The advantage of religion -- "They are perhaps not the most sophisticated" -- Bridgebuilders or defenders of Islam?
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Religious Philosophy, Social Work and Social Engagement of Buddhist and Hindu Movements -- Introduction -- Buddhist Peace Fellowship -- The International Network of Engaged Buddhists (INEB) -- Buddhist social thinkers -- Bhikkhu Buddhadasa -- Santikaro -- Robert Aitken -- Thich Nhat Hanh -- Maruyama Teruo -- Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar -- Buddhist social action -- The Sarvodaya Movement in India and the Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement in Sri Lanka -- Concluding Remarks -- Tikkun Olam and Jewish Outreach within Jewish Faith-Based Organisations -- Introduction -- Jewish Engagement in Development -- Judaism as a Non-Evangelising Religion -- Tikkun Olam and Jewish Outreach -- Jewish Outreach -- Tikkun Olam -- Case Studies -- Case Study 1: Project TEN -- Case Study 2: Agahozo Shalom Youth Village -- Conclusion -- Section III: Inter-religious Contexts and Comparisons -- The Methadone of the People: Not all Theodicies are Sociodicies -- Introduction -- Religious conservativism -- From the church-sect dichotomy to religious field theory -- The ethos of religious peace builders -- Theodicy and sociodicy in postwar BiH -- Conclusion -- Performing 'Religiousness': Negotiations of Religion and the Formation of Identity in Guyanese Development Organisations -- Introduction -- Group Identity and the Identification of Development Organisations -- Religiousness and the Doing of Religion -- Conclusion -- Keep it Altar or Alter Community? Re-framing a Myth of Conversion in Indonesia -- Introduction -- GKJ Elang, IPSEM Foundation and Religious Entrepreneurship -- Church and Diaconia: Education for Children of Labour Family -- Transformation of the Church's Diaconal Programme -- The Development of Service: From Capacity Building to Peace Building -- Christian NGOs in Islamic Indonesia -- Concluding Remarks -- Section IV: Intra-religious Transformations and Changes within RNGOs
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Development as Transformation: Tearfund and the New Evangelical Approach to Holistic Change -- Introduction -- The Formation and Early Workings of Tearfund -- Development as Transformation: The Theology of Integral Mission -- Integral Mission for Development Agencies -- Conclusion -- Megachurches, Dominion Theology and Development -- Introduction: De-essentializing Pentecostal Theology -- "Africa Business and Kingdom Leadership Summit" -- A Dominion Theological Script -- "Greater Works"-and the Collapse of Capital Bank -- Public Debates and Irritations -- Whither Dominion Theology? -- Ahmadiyya and Development Aid in West Africa -- Introduction -- The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community: a transnational Muslim group among others -- Humanity First: history and current activities in Burkina Faso -- Conclusions -- Section V: RNGO Activities in Selected Fields of Sustainable Development -- Gender and Education -- Gender inequality hinders development -- How can gender equality be achieved? -- Case Study: Mission 21 and gender equality -- Mission 21's advocacy programme 2016 and beyond -- Basel Mission and gender equality -- Discussion -- Conclusion: How does religion make a difference? -- "You need to change the whole person" African Initiated Churches and Sustainable Development in South Africa -- Introduction -- Notions of sustainability: from sustainable development to transformation of life -- Elements of transformation -- Engaging transformation -- Healing and world view: transforming the individual -- Ethics and social capital: transforming the environment -- Transformation in action -- Conclusions -- Muslim NGOs and the Quest for Environmental Sustainability in the Context of the Sustainable Development Goals -- Introduction -- Faith Based Development: Towards a "Green" Agenda? -- Muslim NGOs -- Environmental Islam -- Islamic Environmental Teachings
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Empirical Insights into Muslim Environmentalism -- Global South -- Global North -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- On the Roles of Religious NGOs in the Context of Development and Peacebuilding: Christian Churches and Reconciliation in Post-Genocide Rwanda -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Some Problems with the Term "Religious" Violence -- 3. Religion and Peacebuilding: Resources and Productivity -- 3.1 Religious Peacebuilding in Post-Genocide Rwanda -- 3.2 Religious and Non-Religious Peacebuilding -- 4. Conclusion
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Heuser, Andreas Does Religion Make a Difference? Baden-Baden : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft,c2020 ISBN 9783848767069
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Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Politologie
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Theologie/Religionswissenschaften
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Nichtstaatliche Organisation
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Religiöse Organisation
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Internationale Kooperation
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Konferenzschrift
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Konferenzschrift
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Aufsatzsammlung
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