Sacred aid : faith and humanitarianism
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Sacred aid : faith and humanitarianism
Oxford University Press, c2012
- : hardback
- : pbk
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  福島
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  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
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  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
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注記
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
The global humanitarian movement, which originated within Western religious organizations in the early nineteenth century, has been of most important forces in world politics in advancing both human rights and human welfare. While the religious groups that founded the movement originally focused on conversion, in time more secular concerns came to dominate. By the end of the nineteenth century, increasingly professionalized yet nominally religious organization
shifted from reliance on the good book to the public health manual. Over the course of the twentieth century, the secularization of humanitarianism only increased, and by the 1970s the movement's religious inspiration, generally speaking, was marginal to its agenda. However, beginning in the 1980s,
religiously inspired humanitarian movements experienced a major revival, and today they are virtual equals of their secular brethren.
From church-sponsored AIDS prevention campaigns in Africa to Muslim charity efforts in flood-stricken Pakistan to Hindu charities in India, religious groups have altered the character of the global humanitarian movement. Moreover, even secular groups now gesture toward religious inspiration in their work. Clearly, the broad, inexorable march toward secularism predicted by so many Westerners has halted, which is especially intriguing with regard to humanitarianism. Not only was it a highly
secularized movement just forty years ago, but its principles were based on those we associate with "rational " modernity: cosmopolitan one-worldism and material (as opposed to spiritual) progress. How and why did this happen, and what does it mean for humanitarianism writ large? That is the question
that the eminent scholars Michael Barnett and Janice Stein pose in Sacred Aid, and for answers they have gathered chapters from leading scholars that focus on the relationship between secularism and religion in contemporary humanitarianism throughout the developing world. Collectively, the chapters in this volume comprise an original and authoritative account of religion has reshaped the global humanitarian movement in recent times.
目次
- 1 Introduction: The Secularization and Sanctification of Humanitarianism
- 2 Faith in Markets
- Stephen Hopgood and Leslie Vinjamuri
- 3 <"Cultural proximity>" and the Conjuncture of Islam with Modern Humanitarianism
- Jonathan Benthall
- 4 Religious Obligation or Altruistic Giving? Muslims and Charitable Donations
- Ajaz Ahmed Khan
- 5 The Role of Spirituality in Humanitarian Crisis Survival and Recover
- Peter Walker, Dyan Mazurana, Amy Warren, George Scarlett, and Henry Louis
- 6 Religious Giving Outside the Law in New Delhi
- Erica Bornstein
- 7 Pyrrhic Victories? French Catholic Missionaries, Modern Expertise and Secularizing Technologies
- Betrand Taithe
- 8 Faith in the Machine? Humanitarianism in an Age of Bureaucratization
- Michael Barnett
- 9 Bridging the Sacred and the Profane in Humanitarian Life
- Andrea Paras and Janice Gross Stein
- Notes
- Bibliography
- About the Contributors
- Index
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