| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Religion - Wirtschaft - Politik ; Band 20 |
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Religion - Wirtschaft - Politik ; Bd. 20.
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| Contents |
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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3.3 Fundamentalism and fundamental options: sociology of comparative religions -- 3.4 The fundamentalist radicality -- 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 |
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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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 12, 2020) |
| Subject |
Non-governmental organizations.
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Religious institutions.
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Economic development.
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economic development.
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Economic development
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Non-governmental organizations
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Religious institutions
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Heuser, Andreas, 1961- editor.
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Koehrsen, Jens, editor.
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| ISBN |
9783748907633 |
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374890763X |
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