Religion and development ethics in global perspective: a case study of a foreign Christian NGO in China
Much academic writing on religion and development tends to focus on the values, beliefs, and modes of operation of religious organizations to examine whether religion contributes ethically to development. A problem with such an approach is its disregard of the contested and evolving nature of religi...
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| 格式: | 電子 Article |
| 語言: | English |
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Carfax Publ.
[2020]
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Journal of contemporary religion
Year: 2020, 卷: 35, 發布: 1, Pages: 13-30 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Robertson, Roland 1938-
/ 教會組織
/ 非政府組織
/ 發展
/ 全球化
/ 宗教
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| IxTheo Classification: | CH Christianity and Society KBM Asia RJ Mission; missiology |
| Further subjects: | B
Community Development
B China B Globalization B 宗教 B Christianity B Development Ethics |
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Volltext (Resolving-System) |
| 總結: | Much academic writing on religion and development tends to focus on the values, beliefs, and modes of operation of religious organizations to examine whether religion contributes ethically to development. A problem with such an approach is its disregard of the contested and evolving nature of religious participation in development in broader national and global contexts. What constitutes ethical religious contribution to development? How can we study the question sociologically? To answer these two questions, I develop Roland Robertson's notion of the global field to present a framework for analyzing the dynamic interaction between religion and development ethics. In terms of methodological contribution, the framework proposed here prompts us dynamically to contextualize the issue of religious development ethics with reference to four components that make up the global field: the religious agent, the national society, the global civil society, and the global discourse on wellbeing and development. This means that, from an analytical perspective, what is proper or ethical in religious development ethics should not be construed in absolute terms, but in terms of degree and variation. I demonstrate the usefulness of such a contextual approach by drawing on research on GMV' (pseudonym for an international Christian medical professional services group actively engaged in community development) in China and examining the relationship between religious NGOs, the party-state, and evolving discursive practice of development in the country. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-9419 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of contemporary religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/13537903.2020.1695793 |