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

ISBN-13: 9781138674172 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 12 str.

May Ngo

Opis

This book examines how the work of faith-based organisations (FBOs) can help us understand the role of religion in humanitarianism and international aid work. Focusing on the work of an FBO in Morocco offering direct aid to sub-Saharan African migrants 'passing through' on their way towards Europe reveals the challenges the organisation face as they try to negotiate at once local, national and international contexts relating to their particular Christian values in an Islamic country that is situated within a global secular regime. This book argues that these contradictions, tensions and ambiguities 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, more than other actors and particularly in the public domain of humanitarianism, have to constantly navigate this divide. 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 development studies, politics and religion.

O autorze

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