1st Edition
Rediscovering Humanitarianism Using Secular and Religious Histories to Provide New Understandings of Refugee Resettlement
1. Rediscovering Humanitarianism: Using a Faith-Based Lens to Uncover Histories and New Aspects of Humanitarian Aid for Refugees, Jessica Stroja 2. Medical Missionaries and the Humanitarian Subject: The American Women’s Hospital, Faith-Based and Secular Humanitarianism, 1917-1939, Joy Damousi 3. Training the Friends Relief Service for the “Refugee Problem” at Mount Waltham, 1943, Nerissa K. Aksamit 4. “A Mission Field, Backwards”: World Relief and American Evangelicals in U.S. Refugee Resettlement, Emily Frazier 5. Religious Humanitarianism in Post-War Queensland, Australia: Spiritual Guidance, Evangelism, or Humanitarian Aid?, Jessica Stroja 6. Australian Baptist Missionaries, Humanitarianism and the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971, Rachel Stevens 7. DIY Aid in Poland: How Grassroots Humanitarianism Helped Ukrainian Refugees, Patrice C. McMahon 8. Conclusion: Legacies of Faith-Based Humanitarianism and Contemporary Refugee Emergencies, Jessica Stroja
Biography
Jessica Stroja is an Adjunct Research Fellow in the Centre for Social and Cultural Research, Griffith University, Australia, and specialises in heritage and the resettlement of refugees. Her recent work focuses on the role of faith-based organisations in the care and advocacy for refugees in Australia during the twentieth century.
