Between Humanitarianism and Evangelism in Faith-based Organisations : A Case from the African Migration Route / May Ngo.

By: Ngo, May [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge Research in Religion and DevelopmentPublisher: London : Taylor and Francis, 2018Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resourceContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781315561479; 9781317201441; 9781317201458Subject(s): Child development | Economic development -- Political aspects | Economic development -- Study and teaching | Economic development | Economic geography | Emigration and immigration | Ethnology | International agencies | Methodology | Religion | Socialization | Development - Soc Sci | Development Geography | Development Policy | Development Studies | Ethnography & Methodology | International Organizations | Migration & Diaspora | Politics & Development | ReligionAdditional physical formats: Print version: : No titleLOC classification: HN39.M8 | N466 2018Online resources: Click here to view.
Contents:
chapter 1 Introduction / May Ngo -- chapter 2 Reflections on an ethnography -- Faith and migration / May Ngo -- chapter 3 Transnational faith communities -- Improvisation and invention / May Ngo -- chapter 4 External relations -- “If God is for us, who can attack us?” / May Ngo -- chapter 5 Organisational mission and identity -- “They are one” / May Ngo -- chapter 6 Internal dynamics -- Staff precariousness and staff misconduct / May Ngo -- chapter 7 Conclusion / May Ngo.
Scope and content: "Religion has always played an important, if often contested, role in the public domain. This book focuses on how faith-based organisations (FBOs) interact with the public sphere, showing how faith-based actors are themselves shaped by wider processes and global forces such as globalisation, migration, foreign policy and neoliberal markets.Focusing on a case study of an FBO in Morocco which gives aid to sub-Saharan African irregular migrants, the book reveals some of the challenges the organisation faces as it tries to negotiate at once local, national and international contexts through their particular Christian values. This book contends that the contradictions, tensions and ambiguities that arise are primarily a result of the organisation having to negotiate a normative global secular liberalism which requires a strict demarcation between religion and politics, and religion and the secular. Faith-based actors, particularly within humanitarianism, have to constantly navigate this divide and in examining the question of how religious values translate into humanitarian and development practices, categories such as religion, the secular and politics and the boundaries between them will need to be interrogated. This book explores the diversity and complexity of the work of FBOs and will be of great interest to students and researchers working at the intersections of humanitarianism and development studies, politics and religion."--Provided by publisher.
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chapter 1 Introduction / May Ngo -- chapter 2 Reflections on an ethnography -- Faith and migration / May Ngo -- chapter 3 Transnational faith communities -- Improvisation and invention / May Ngo -- chapter 4 External relations -- “If God is for us, who can attack us?” / May Ngo -- chapter 5 Organisational mission and identity -- “They are one” / May Ngo -- chapter 6 Internal dynamics -- Staff precariousness and staff misconduct / May Ngo -- chapter 7 Conclusion / May Ngo.

"Religion has always played an important, if often contested, role in the public domain. This book focuses on how faith-based organisations (FBOs) interact with the public sphere, showing how faith-based actors are themselves shaped by wider processes and global forces such as globalisation, migration, foreign policy and neoliberal markets.Focusing on a case study of an FBO in Morocco which gives aid to sub-Saharan African irregular migrants, the book reveals some of the challenges the organisation faces as it tries to negotiate at once local, national and international contexts through their particular Christian values. This book contends that the contradictions, tensions and ambiguities that arise are primarily a result of the organisation having to negotiate a normative global secular liberalism which requires a strict demarcation between religion and politics, and religion and the secular. Faith-based actors, particularly within humanitarianism, have to constantly navigate this divide and in examining the question of how religious values translate into humanitarian and development practices, categories such as religion, the secular and politics and the boundaries between them will need to be interrogated. This book explores the diversity and complexity of the work of FBOs and will be of great interest to students and researchers working at the intersections of humanitarianism and development studies, politics and religion."--Provided by publisher.

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