The Faith-Based Initiative in Comparative Perspective: Making Use of Religious Providers in Britain and the United States

Zehavi, Amos

doi:10.5129/001041508x12911362383110

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“…Clarke argues that because FBOs establish themselves as key religious—and political—players, we need to address the breadth and variety in their ranks, recognizing that ‘faith matters’ to development (Clarke, , 835–36). While the activities of FBOs remain controversial in some circles (refer to Jennings, ), many Western donors and governments have begun to partner with these organizations (Berger, ; Zehavi, ; Lipsky, ).…”

Section: Religion In Development Studies and Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding the Effects of Faith: A Comparison of Religious and Secular HIV Prevention NGOS in Kenya

Hershey

2015

J of Intl Development

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Religious non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are active in development efforts, yet the role faith plays in these organizations-and its effects on programs-remains unclear. Drawing on evidence from a study of Kenyan NGOs, I find that faith rarely emerges in the programs of Christian religious NGOs. I argue that both secular and religious NGOs are constrained by donor restrictions and a need for legitimacy that simultaneously remove religious elements from religious NGOs and promote minimal religious practices within secular organizations. The second half of the article discusses the nuanced ways in which faith does manifest within the organizational characteristics and practices of NGOs.

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Section: Religion In Development Studies and Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding the Effects of Faith: A Comparison of Religious and Secular HIV Prevention NGOS in Kenya

Hershey

2015

J of Intl Development

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“…We suggest that this mechanism influences the relationship between religious belief and prosocial orientations. When government provision of welfare proves inadequate, religious groups or organizations take on a more active role, either by directly providing welfare services themselves or by calling on the government to provide more [ 17 , 70 , 71 ]. Such religiously-motivated welfare provision helps to reinforce the link between religious beliefs and prosocial orientations because the providers base their discourse and mobilization strategies on appeals to religious values of compassion and a moral obligation to help others [ 17 , 72 ].…”

Section: Contextual Influences: the Moderating Effect Of State Welfarmentioning

confidence: 99%

“I was hungry and you gave me food”: Religiosity and attitudes toward redistribution

Arıkan

Bloom

2019

PLoS ONE

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Current literature presents conflicting findings concerning the effect of religiosity on attitudes towards redistribution. This paper attempts to reconcile these findings by arguing that the belief and social behavior dimensions of religiosity affect support for redistribution via different mechanisms, and that these effects are moderated by state welfare generosity. Using multilevel path analysis models on data from the World Values Survey, we show that the effect of the religious belief on attitudes towards redistribution is mediated by competing personal orientations—prosocial values and conservative identification—while the religious social behavior dimension significantly decreases support for redistribution via increased levels of happiness. Lower levels of welfare generosity increase the positive effect of prosocial orientations and weaken the negative effect conservative identification, leading to positive or null indirect effect of religiosity. These findings show the importance of taking into account the multiple dimensions of religiosity and institutional context when studying the relationship between religion and redistribution attitudes.

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“…FBOs practically enjoy accessibility in inner communities far more than the state or the market. Thus, George W. Bush and Tony Blair described sometimes as religiously inspired politicians, facilitated the replacement of these organizations’ societal interventions to a shrinking state’s role (Zehavi 2008 , 347). Jeffrey C. Issac criticizes these initiatives and stresses that a promising contribution by civil society to public policy in the post-welfare state should address structural social and economic challenges, raise fundamental issues, question statist policies, and oppose unregulated capitalist markets (Issac 2003 : 9).…”

Section: First Section: Islamic Fbos: Theoretical Socioeconomic Andmentioning

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Faith-based organizations: humanitarian mission or religious missionary

Khafagy

2020

Int J Humanitarian Action

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This paper analyzes Islamic FBOs’ humanitarian approaches, programs, and challenges. Politicalized religious interpretations are also on board to investigate their missionary aspects. I design my argument based on Michael Barnett and Janice Grass Stein’s assumption on the impact of social constructions on establishing sacred and secular concepts and spaces. Thus, I study the UK-based Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW) and the Kuwaiti Direct Aid Society (DAS) to examine the influence of their social settings on their humanitarian experiences. My question is “do different social settings shape various humanitarian approach, although of sharing the same religious mission?” I argue that Islamic rules encourage Muslims to be religiously committed to paying charity and showing human and religious solidarity. In this regard, flexible Islamic Fiqh (jurisprudence) allows Muslima to set various socially constructed implementations of these religious commitments. Humanitarian relief is not an exception in this regard. Therefore, Islamic FBOs lay down on a continuum based on their socially constructed models which reflect different interpretations of religious texts and their applications to understanding societal issues as well as various employed strategies of these civil society actors.

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The Faith-Based Initiative in Comparative Perspective: Making Use of Religious Providers in Britain and the United States

Cited by 7 publications

References 9 publications

Understanding the Effects of Faith: A Comparison of Religious and Secular HIV Prevention NGOS in Kenya

Understanding the Effects of Faith: A Comparison of Religious and Secular HIV Prevention NGOS in Kenya

“I was hungry and you gave me food”: Religiosity and attitudes toward redistribution

Faith-based organizations: humanitarian mission or religious missionary

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