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Development Across Faith Boundaries book cover

1st Edition

Development Across Faith Boundaries

Edited By Anthony Ware, Matthew Clarke Copyright 2017
194 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages
by Routledge
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Faith-based organisations (FBOs) have long been recognised as having an advantage in delivering programs and interventions amongst communities of the same faith. However, many FBOs today work across a variety of contexts, including with local partners and communities of different faiths. Likewise, secular NGOs and donors are increasingly partnering with faith-based organisations to work in... Read more

Part One: Introduction 
1. Crossing the faith boundary Anthony Ware and Matthew Clarke 

2. Common witness, common cause: Beyond Boundaries in faith-based development action Michael Jennings 

Part Two: Case Studies
3. "Do Not Depend on the Others to Help You": A case of diverging aspirations between a Christianfaith-based organisation and Hindu sex workers Nicole Aaron

4. Development amidst communal conflict: Case study of a Christian FBO in a Buddhist-Muslim conflict region in MyanmarAnthony Ware and Peter Thein Nyunt

5. Crossing faith boundaries: Channels of Hope and World Vision Christos Greyling

6. Faith-based forums in Ethiopia: An initiative for development cooperation Andrew Newmarch and Kebede Bekere 

7. Walking on Common Ground: Case studies in development across faith boundaries Mark Webster 

8. Outside, inside: Working with Monastic Schools in Burma/Myanmar Karl Dorning

9. Capacity Building of Religious Leaders in Afghanistan: Experience of the Children of Uruzgan program Yasmin Alttahir and Abdul Basir Sherzad

10. In Good Faith: The benefits and challenges of Oxfam’s secular work with communities of faith in Melanesia Katie Greenwood and Matthew Clarke

Part Three: Conclusions
11. See No Religion, Hear No Religion, Speak No Religion: Aid workers, religion and cognitive dissonance in Bosnia and Herzegovina Denis Dragovic

12. Faith and Crossing Boundaries: Implications for development policy and practice Anthony Ware and Matthew Clarke

Biography

Anthony Ware is a Senior Lecturer at Deakin University, Australia.

Matthew Clarke is the Head of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Deakin University, Australia.

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