Faith-Based Aid to People Affected by Conflict in Jos, Nigeria: An Analysis of the Role of Christian and Muslim Organizations

Between international donors and local faith communities: Intermediaries in humanitarian assistance to Syrian refugees in Jordan and Lebanon

“…There is also concern that local FBOs, including LFCs, may choose their beneficiaries selectively, prioritising members of their own faith community (Ferris, ; Clarke, ; Orji, ), or engage in proselytisation, that is, taking advantage of the vulnerable situation of their beneficiaries to entice them into certain behaviour or action, such as a change in religion (Jayasinghe, ; James, ). Indeed, research on the topic has emphasised increasingly that the concept of ‘disaster evangelism’ is highly contested and complex (Fiddian‐Qasmiyeh, , pp.…”

Helping One’s Neighbor: Teaching and Learning Prosocial Behavior in a Religious Community

“…This dimension also includes an explicit and systematic description of institutional philosophy, according to which prosocial behavior represents a value, a goal, and an element of alterity derived from the Protestant Methodist church, which highlights the importance of belonging and collective identity. Other studies also show that prosocial practices are essential for these communities to increase their prosociality, highlighting the role of the spiritual and material aid that they constantly give the needy (Marín 2016;Nkwachukwu 2011). This stresses the relevance of considering a practical dimension: helping behaviors that benefit others.…”

“…Although studies on prosociality in Protestant Christian churches are scarce, research suggests that these communities help others guided by the notion of human dignity, with spiritual aid being valued above material aspects (Kraft 2016). Also, when socio-natural disasters strike, they are the first to respond and the help that they provide tends to be efficient (Nkwachukwu 2011). Community members participate in various contexts of everyday life (Mansilla and Muñoz 2017), displaying a strong community spirit, also known as social evangelism (Reyes and Rodríguez 2014), and delivering 1 In Latin America, unlike Catholics, Protestants lack an unified church and are instead divided into various denominations or churches.…”

“…The pertinence and relevance of this study rest on the need to achieve a better scientific understanding of prosocial behavior (Dunfiel and Kuhlmeier 2013), especially regarding the way in which it is developed, taught, and learned, given that it has a major positive impact on personal and social quality of life (Arias 2015;Coma and Carbonell 2015). This topic will be examined in a religious context, given the helping behaviors present in these settings (Nkwachukwu 2011) and the limited research conducted on the relationship between religion, prosociality, and subjectivity (Einolf 2011).…”

Transnational Islamic charity as everyday rituals

“…Transnational Islamic charity has been studied in the context of development, mainly as part of emergent work on the connections between religion and development (De Cordier 2009;Deneulin and Rakodi 2011;Orji 2011), including studies of © 2016 The Author(s) transnational Muslim NGOs (Ozkan 2012;Petersen 2012aPetersen , 2012bRosenow-Williams and Sezgin 2014). Some authors have explicitly connected it with humanitarian engagement in times of crisis (Benthall 2008;De Cordier 2009).…”