Does Religion Make a Difference?: Religious NGOs in International Development Collaboration

Prof. Dr. Andreas Heuser; Prof. Dr. Jens Koehrsen

doi:10.5771/9783748907633

Summary

Religions are increasingly being regarded as relevant partners in international development cooperation due to their special attributes. However, to date there has been little research into what the special attributes of religious development agencies actually are or how such organisations employ them. What resources do religious NGOs draw on in development cooperation? How do such NGOs differ from other development agencies? Does their engagement make a considerable difference to collaborative development work? Using empirical case studies and theoretical analysis, the contributions in this book address these questions. In doing so, they examine different religions and their collaborative development work in various regions of the world, and chart the most recent changes in religions. With contributions byJeffrey Haynes, Katherine Marshall, Andreas Heuser, Jens Koehrsen, Dena Freeman, Richard Friedli, Wilhelm Gräb, Ulrich Dehn, Marie Juul Petersen, Claudia Hoffmann, Sinah Theres Kloß, Yonatan N. Gez, Katrin Langewiesche, Suwarto Adi, Ido Benvenisti, Christine Schliesser, Leif H. Seibert, Philipp Öhlmann, Marie-Luise Frost, Adi Maya

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Edition: 1/2020
Copyright Year: 2020
ISBN-Print: 978-3-8487-6706-9
ISBN-Online: 978-3-7489-0763-3
Publisher: Nomos, Baden-Baden
Series: Religion - Wirtschaft - Politik
Volume: 20
Language: English
Pages: 364
Product Type: Edited Book

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1. A Quiet Revolution
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2. The Reluctant Discovery of Religion
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3. The Great Global Transformation
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4. RNGOs’ Abilities in Sustainable Development
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5. Tolerance of Ambiguity
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6. Multireligious Case-Studies
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7. Outline of the Volume
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  1. Introduction: the “resurgence” of interest in religious matters
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  2. Definition challenges
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  3. Global agendas, religious involvement
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  4. The religious landscape in development work
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  5. A bumpy path to religious engagement
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    1. Religion and violence
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    2. Motivations and boundaries: the issue of Proselytizing
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    3. Controversies on gender
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    4. Coordination and harmonization
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    5. Governance issues
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    6. Instrumentalization debates
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    7. Human rights
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    8. Debates about models
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  1. Introduction
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  2. Development concerns at the United Nations
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  3. The World Bank, the WCC and the MDGs
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  4. The World Bank, the WCC and SDGs: Building Cooperation between Religious and Secular Development Actors
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  5. Conclusion
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  1. Development
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  2. Religion
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  3. Spirituality
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  4. Secularity
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  1. 2.1 Elements of cultural anthropology and the sociology of religions
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  2. 2.2 Elements of communication skills
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  1. 3.1 Conceptualizing religion
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  2. 3.2 Fundamentalist and fundamental
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  3. 3.3 Fundamentalism and fundamental options: sociology of comparative religions
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    1. i. Cognitive level: binary thinking
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    2. ii. Social level: proselyte dynamism
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    3. iii. Psychological aspects: hardening around morals
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    4. iv. Strategic procedures: eradicating the stigmatised reality
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    1. i. Theological cognitive level: axiological difference between the “divine milieu” and subsequent socio-political manifestations
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    2. ii. Social level: empathic availability
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    3. iii. Psychological level: the right to difference
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    4. iv. Strategic level: beauty of compromise
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  6. 3.6 Findings on the “fundamentalist vs fundamental” shift
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    1. i. A binary doctrinal argument
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    2. ii. Socio-political consequences
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    3. iii. Psychology hardening around morals
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    4. iv. Police and military consequences
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    1. i. The encompassing “divine milieu”
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    2. ii. Fundamental empathy
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    3. iii. Solidarity in difference
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    4. iv. Political level
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5. 5 Outcomes and new beginnings on development and religion issues
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  1. Introduction
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  2. The Emergence of International Muslim NGOs
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    1. International Muslim NGOs and the Global War on Terror
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  4. Religious NGOs in the Field of Development and Humanitarian Aid
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  5. International Islamic Relief Organisation: ‘It’s all in Islam!’
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  6. A dignified life and a strengthened umma
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  7. “Islam is about the spiritual and social matters”
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  8. “They don’t have the same feeling of family as we have”
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    1. “Lasting routes out of poverty”
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    2. The advantage of religion
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  10. “They are perhaps not the most sophisticated”
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  11. Bridgebuilders or defenders of Islam?
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  1. Introduction
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    1. The International Network of Engaged Buddhists (INEB)
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    2. Buddhist social thinkers
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    3. Bhikkhu Buddhadasa
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  3. Santikaro
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  4. Robert Aitken
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  5. Thich Nhat Hanh
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  6. Maruyama Teruo
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  7. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
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  8. Buddhist social action
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  9. The Sarvodaya Movement in India and the Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement in Sri Lanka
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  10. Concluding Remarks
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  1. Introduction
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  2. Jewish Engagement in Development
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  3. Judaism as a Non-Evangelising Religion
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    1. Jewish Outreach
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    2. Tikkun Olam
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  5. Case Studies
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  6. Case Study 1: Project TEN
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  7. Case Study 2: Agahozo Shalom Youth Village
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  8. Conclusion
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  1. Introduction
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  2. Religious conservativism
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  3. From the church-sect dichotomy to religious field theory
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  4. The ethos of religious peace builders
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  5. Theodicy and sociodicy in postwar BiH
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  6. Conclusion
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  1. Introduction
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  2. Group Identity and the Identification of Development Organisations
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  3. Religiousness and the Doing of Religion
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  4. Conclusion
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  1. Introduction
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  2. GKJ Elang, IPSEM Foundation and Religious Entrepreneurship
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  3. Church and Diaconia: Education for Children of Labour Family
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  4. Transformation of the Church’s Diaconal Programme
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  5. The Development of Service: From Capacity Building to Peace Building
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  6. Christian NGOs in Islamic Indonesia
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  7. Concluding Remarks
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  1. Introduction
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  2. The Formation and Early Workings of Tearfund
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  3. Development as Transformation: The Theology of Integral Mission
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  4. Integral Mission for Development Agencies
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  5. Conclusion
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  1. Introduction: De-essentializing Pentecostal Theology
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  2. “Africa Business and Kingdom Leadership Summit“
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  3. A Dominion Theological Script
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  4. “Greater Works”—and the Collapse of Capital Bank
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  5. Public Debates and Irritations
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  6. Whither Dominion Theology?
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  1. Introduction
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  2. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community: a transnational Muslim group among others
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  3. Humanity First: history and current activities in Burkina Faso
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  4. Conclusions
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  1. Gender inequality hinders development
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  2. How can gender equality be achieved?
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  3. Case Study: Mission 21 and gender equality
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  4. Mission 21’s advocacy programme 2016 and beyond
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  5. Basel Mission and gender equality
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  6. Discussion
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  7. Conclusion: How does religion make a difference?
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  1. Introduction
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  2. Notions of sustainability: from sustainable development to transformation of life
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  3. Elements of transformation
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    1. Healing and world view: transforming the individual
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    2. Ethics and social capital: transforming the environment
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    3. Transformation in action
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  5. Conclusions
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  1. Introduction
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  2. Faith Based Development: Towards a “Green” Agenda?
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  3. Muslim NGOs
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  4. Environmental Islam
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  5. Islamic Environmental Teachings
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  6. Empirical Insights into Muslim Environmentalism
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  7. Global South
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  8. Global North
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  9. Discussion
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  10. Conclusion
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  1. 1. Introduction
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  2. 2. Some Problems with the Term “Religious” Violence
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    1. 3.1 Religious Peacebuilding in Post-Genocide Rwanda
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    2. 3.2 Religious and Non-Religious Peacebuilding
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  4. 4. Conclusion
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