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

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May Ngo (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)

Between Humanitarianism and Evangelism in Faith-based Organisations

A Case from the African Migration Route

May Ngo (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)

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English

Routledge
30 September 2020

Development studies; Religious issues & debates; Christian mission & evangelism; Charities, voluntary services & philanthropy; Aid & relief programmes

Series: Routledge Research in Religion and Development

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.

By: May Ngo (Swinburne University of Technology Australia)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367666873
ISBN 10: 0367666871
Series: Routledge Research in Religion and Development
Pages: 12
Publication Date: 30 September 2020
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Acknowledgments List of Acronyms Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Reflections on an ethnography: faith and migration Chapter 3Transnational faith communities: improvisation and invention Chapter 4 External relations: ""If God is for us, who can attack us?"" Chapter 5 Organisational mission and identity: ""They are one"" Chapter 6 Internal dynamics: staff precariousness and staff misconduct Chapter 7 Conclusion Index"

May Ngo is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.

Reviews for Between Humanitarianism and Evangelism in Faith-based Organisations: A Case from the African Migration Route

"""This rich ethnography of a Christian faith-based organisation working with irregular migrants in Morocco provides new insights into the ways in which such organisations both move through and simultaneously shape transnational, religious, and humanitarian spaces. May Ngo’s work insightfully highlights the importance of local faith communities in contemporary humanitarian and development contexts, while also contributing to broader conversations on contemporary reconfigurations of both ‘religion’ and ‘humanitarianism’ through their contextualised interactions."" R. Michael Feener, Sultan of Oman Fellow, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, University of Oxford, UK ""This is a wonderfully detailed and nuanced book which, in the best tradition of ethnography, casts new light on the world of faith-based organisations. Focusing on a specific Protestant organisation and the work it carries out among irregular migrants in Morocco, May Ngo examines the ways in which precariousness and aporia are inscribed into the lives of humanitarians and migrants alike. This is a deeply compassionate and insightful account into some of the biggest ethical challenges facing the world today."" -- Philip Fountain, Senior Lecturer, School of Art History, Classics and Religious Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand"