Religious voices in the politics of international development : faith-based NGOs as non-state political and moral actors
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Religious voices in the politics of international development : faith-based NGOs as non-state political and moral actors
(Palgrave studies in religion, politics, and policy / series editors, Ted G. Jelen and Mark J. Rozell)
Palgrave Macmillan, c2021
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction 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 religion
International 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 Politics
Faith-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 mobilization
Methodology
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 investing
Fair 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 FBOs
What 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
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