Religious Voices in the Politics of International Development: Faith-Based NGOs as Non-state Politic

                                    Religious Voices

                                    Between Silence and Protest

Chapter 2         Religion, Development and Faith-based organizations

                                    Religion and Development

                                                Religion's influence: Beliefs, institutions, and practices

                                                "World religions": Changing patterns, dynamism, and influence

Religion and Politics: The United States and Beyond

                                    Contemporary religious voices in US Policy

                                    Religion, mobilization and politics in the rich countries

                                    Perspectives on NGOs

                                                Marketplace

                                                Global socio-political systems 

                                                Shared values, identities, and trust

                                                Institutions: organizational affiliation and institutional rootedness

                                    Why Faith-based NGOs?

Religion, FBOs and development agencies          

Chapter 3         Faith-based identities

FBOs as religious and as organizations

Types of faith based organizations in international charitable action

            FBOs: The players

International FBOs: Balancing professional and religious identities

Faith-based NGOs: four big issues

            Whom to serve? Universal or communal? 

            Individual transformation and social change

            Proselytizing

            Religious belief, culture, and staffing

NGOs' institutional ties to religion: a typology

Chapter 4         Encouraging Active Citizen Voices on International Policy? The Record of U.S. Faith-based NGOs

                        FBOs, Religious Organizations, and Political Voice

                                    Four models of religious political voice on international affairs

                        Faith-based NGOs as Advocates

                                    Record and limitations

                        Independent issue-focused groups

                        Mobilizing or marginalizing religious citizen action?

Chapter 5         Agendas and Strategies: Prophetic voices and cautious reformers

            Understanding FBO Advocacy: Theory and Motivations

                                                Why FBO advocacy?

Method: Categorizing Advocacy Issues

                                    Public policy advocacy agendas: Findings

                                    FBO and Secular NGO Agendas

                                    A Closer Look: "Advocating Against Hunger"

                                                Benchmarks: Two broad agendas on food security

                                                Faith-based food security agendas

                                                Agendas in comparative perspective

Chapter 6         Global Religions and National Politics

                                    NGOs, Politics, Religion and International Development

                                    FBO Families

                                                Transnational relationships in religious communities

                                    Universal Faiths and Sources of Variation

                                                Legal-institutional framework

                                    Faith-based Identities and Political Voice

                                                Advocacy issue agendas

                                                Advocacy alliances

                                    Universal Faiths and National Politics

Chapter 7         Beyond Advocacy?  Mobilizing Compassion

                                    Methodology

                                    The FBOs and the actions they encourage

                        Transformative Work in Action: Some Themes and Cases

Faith in the Marketplace: Consumers and Investors

            Simplicity

            Fair trade

                                    Divesting fossil fuels, investing in energy access

Some Implications

Chapter 8         Religious Movements and FBOs: The Climate Threat and Covid-19

                                                What resources do faith-based NGOs deploy?

                                    Three Contemporary movements

                                                Jubilee debt campaign

                                                Sanctuary movements

                                                Save Darfur Coalition

                                    Climate and Energy Access: A cause struggles to become a movement

COVID-19: Prophetic voices in a pandemic?

FBOs in a Society in Crisis: Racial Justice

Chapter 9         Conclusions

                                    FBOs, Religious identities and US politics

                                    Limiting Factors: Agendas and communication

                                    FBOs and potential for mass action

                                    Lessons from most active mobilizers