scholarly journals The Role of Faith Based Organizations in Development: A Critical Analysis

2021 ◽  
pp. 81-108
Author(s):  
Md Didarul Islam
Keyword(s):  
Service Provision ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Mixed Result ◽  
Global Development ◽  
Development Discourse ◽  
Terrorist Financing ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
Faith Based Organizations

There has been a relatively new dimension of development discourse to analyze the role of Faith Based Organizations (FBOs) in global development. In doing so, most of the academic literatures have addressed how FBOs positively contributed to the global development over the years. In contrast, there are some criticisms against the FBOs. This article attempts to elucidate three major criticisms against the FBOs including a. sectarian service provision, b. proselytization and c. terrorist financing. This article finds a mixed result arguing that there are limitations of FBOs in the concerned cases but those limitations do not reduce the significance of the FBOs in global development. Philosophy and Progress, Vol#63-64-; No#1-2; Jan-Dec 2018 P 81-108

scholarly journals Religion and Development: Assessing the Contribution of the Faith Based Organizations in Bangladesh

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 21-25
Author(s):  
Ayesha Siddika
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Terrorist Financing ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
World Vision ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Faith Based Organizations

Religion has been playing a significant role in the socio-economic development of the society, more specifically of the under privileged people. Religion or Faith based NGOs are one of the pioneering agents of this kind of development. Though the contributions of such organizations; World Vision or Christian Aid for instances, have been evaluated in the Western academia, in Bangladesh the contributions of these Faith Based Organizations have been overlooked for a long time. FBOs have been working in Bangladesh on diverse issues from poverty reduction to health issues. This article in particular will critically assess the role of the Faith Based Organizations in Bangladesh. Apart from their positive contributions, an attempt has been shown to address few criticisms against them such as conversion and terrorist financing.

Jobless and Godless: Religious neoliberalism and the project of evangelizing employability in the US The authors contributed equally to the research for and writing of this article.

Ethnography ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Hennigan ◽  
Gretchen Purser
Keyword(s):  
Welfare Reform ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Job Readiness ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
The Us ◽  
Neoliberal Ideology ◽  
Faith Based Organizations ◽  
Scholarly Attention

In the wake of welfare reform, there has been growing scholarly attention to ‘religious neoliberalism’ and, specifically, to the practices and politics of faith-based organizations in neoliberalized landscapes of social service provision. While much of this scholarship has suggested a seamless ‘fusion’ between conservative evangelicalism and neoliberal ideology, ethnographic research has tended to reveal the far more complicated, and contradictory, reality of evangelical social projects as they play out on the ground. Presenting the first in-depth ethnography of a faith-based job-readiness program, this article examines the contradictory logics operative within the project of what we call ‘evangelizing employability.’ Targeting joblessness, the program urges entrepreneurial independence. Targeting godlessness, the program urges righteous dependence on God. The project of evangelizing employability reveals the extraordinary utility of religion for the enactment of neoliberal priorities and policies of work enforcement and contributes to our understanding of religious neoliberalism and its class-based contradictions.

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