1st Edition

Faith in Foreign Aid Religious Organizations’ Engagement with USAID

By Susan Turner Haynes Copyright 2025
180 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

180 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

180 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The United States contributes more foreign aid than any other state in the world, and it is often recognized as a leader in engaging religious organizations in aid delivery. Faith in Foreign Aid is the first book to closely examine how the relationship between religious organizations and USAID plays out in practice. Faith in Foreign Aid relies on an original dataset to trace faith-based... Read more

Chapter 1: Introduction

 

Chapter 2: Global Religious Engagement

 

Chapter 3: America’s Religious Engagement

 

Chapter 4: Trends in Faith-Based Funding

 

Chapter 5: Faith-Based Organizations Opting Out 

 

Chapter 6: Faith-Based Organizations Opting In 

 

Chapter 7: Conclusion

Biography

Susan Turner Haynes is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Lipscomb University in Nashville, TN, USA. She teaches International Development, Constitutional Law, American Foreign Policy, and International Security, among others. Her first book, Chinese Nuclear Proliferation, was published in 2016.