Faith and Charity

Steven Watts

Description

Since the 1990s, most African economies and public spheres have been liberalised, and new civil society actors have emerged. As mapped out by Marie Nathalie LeBlanc and Louis Audet Gosselin, in West Africa Christian and Muslim organisations have come to dominate the field of humanitarian assistance.



Moving beyond mainstream development theory, Faith and Charity brings out the crucial role of religion in the development process and the interplay of moral and political ideologies. From faith-based NGOs to individual local activists, the authors explore how each group makes sense of, and contributes to, the wider process of social development in the neoliberal era.



Based on extensive research and deploying a sophisticated and original frame of analysis, Faith and Charity will make an important contribution to the existing literature on development anthropology and the anthropology of religion in Africa.
Series Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Acronyms

1. Introduction: Faith, Charity and the Ethics of Volunteerism in West Africa - Marie Nathalie LeBlanc and Louis Audet Gosselin

Part I: Religion, Politics and Development: NGO-isation and Religious Influence in the Twenty-First Century

2. Reflections on the Socio-Political Roles of Islamic NGOs in West Africa: Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire and Burkina Faso - Mathias Savadogo, Muriel Gomez-Perez and Marie Nathalie LeBlanc

3. Muslim NGOs in Côte d’Ivoire: Towards an Islamic Culture of Charity - Issouf Binaté

4. Catholic NGOs in Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire: A Case Apart? - Louis Audet Gosselin and Boris Koenig

Part II: Religious Actors and the Making of NGOs

5. Precarious Agency in the Face of ‘Good Governance’: The NGO-isation of Muslim Women’s Associations in Côte d’Ivoire - Marie Nathalie LeBlanc

6. Leaders of National and Transnational Muslim NGOs in Burkina Faso: Diverse Forms and Experiences of Islamic Civic Engagement - Kathéry Couillard, Frédérick Madore and Muriel Gomez-Perez

7. Private Evangelical Assistance to Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Burkina Faso: Religious Voluntarism and the Road to Success - Louis Audet Gosselin

8. From Local to Transnational Challenges: Religious Leaders and Muslim NGOs in Burkina Faso - Mara Vitale

9. Christian Citizenship, Evangelical NGOs and the Ethics of Holistic Rehabilitation among Socially Marginalised Groups in Côte d’Ivoire - Boris Koenig

10. Conclusion - Louis Audet Gosselin and Marie Nathalie LeBlanc

Notes

Bibliography

Notes on Contributors

Index

Sujets

• NGOs
• Social Aspects
• POLITICAL SCIENCE
• Philosophie et théologie
• Religión
• Political science of religion
• Development studies
• Religion in Africa
• Humanitarianism
• General officer
• West Africa
• Non-governmental organization
• Development
• Religion
• General
• Science

Informations

• Publié par: Pluto Press
• Date de parution: 20 octobre 2016
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781783719969
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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Faith and Charity

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Faith and Charity Religion and Humanitarian Assistance in West Africa

Edited by Marie Nathalie LeBlanc and Louis Audet Gosselin

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Series Preface Acknowledgements List of Acronyms

Contents

  Introduction: Faith, Charity and the Ethics of Volunteerism in West Africa  Marie Nathalie LeBlanc and Louis Audet Gosselin

PART 1 RELIGION, POLITICS AND DEVELOPMENT: NGO-ISATION AND RELIGIOUS INFLUENCE IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

  Reflections on the Socio-political Roles of Islamic NGOs in West Africa: Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire and Burkina Faso  Mathias Savadogo, Muriel GomezPerez and Marie Nathalie LeBlanc

 3 Muslim NGOs in Côte d’Ivoire: Towards an Islamic Culture of Charity  Issouf Binaté

 4 Catholic NGOs in Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire: A Case Apart?  Louis Audet Gosselin and Boris Koenig

PART 2

RELIGIOUS ACTORS AND THE MAKING OF NGOs

 5 Precarious Agency in the Face of ‘Good Governance’: The NGO-isation of Muslim Women’s Associations in Côte d’Ivoire  Marie Nathalie LeBlanc

 6 Leaders of National and Transnational Muslim NGOs in Burkina Faso: Diverse Forms and Experiences of Islamic Civic Engagement  Kathéry Couillard, Frédérick Madore and Muriel GomezPerez

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 7 Private Evangelical Assistance to Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Burkina Faso: Religious Voluntarism and the Road to Success  Louis Audet Gosselin

 8 From Local to Transnational Challenges: Religious Leaders and Muslim NGOs in Burkina Faso  Mara Vitale

 9 Christian Citizenship, Evangelical NGOs and the Ethics of Holistic Rehabilitation among Socially Marginalised Groups in Côte d’Ivoire  Boris Koenig

0 Conclusion  Louis Audet Gosselin and Marie Nathalie LeBlanc

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Series Preface

Anthropology is a discipline based upon in-depth ethnographic works that deal with wider theoretical issues in the context of particular, local conditions – to paraphrase an important volume from the series:large issues explored insmall places. This series has a particular mission: to publish work that moves away from an old-style descriptive ethnography that is strongly area-studies oriented, and offer genuine theoretical arguments that are of interest to a much wider readership, but which are nevertheless located and grounded in solid ethnographic research. If anthropology is to argue itself a place in the contemporary intellectual world, then it must surely be through such research. We start from the question: ‘What can this ethnographic material tell us about the bigger theoretical issues that concern the social sciences?’ rather than ‘What can these theoretical ideas tell us about the ethnographic context?’ Put this way round, such work becomesaboutlarge issues,set in a (relatively) small place, rather than detailed description of a small place for its own sake. As Clifford Geertz once said, ‘Anthropologists don’t study villages; they studyinvillages.’ By place, we mean not only geographical locale, but also other types of ‘place’ – within political, economic, religious or other social systems. We therefore publish work based on ethnography within political and religious movements, occupational or class groups, among youth, development agencies, and nationalist movements; but also work that is more thematically based – on kinship, landscape, the state, violence, corruption, the self. The series publishes four kinds of volume: ethnographic monographs; comparative texts; edited collections; and shorter, polemical essays. We publish work from all traditions of anthropology, and all parts of the world, which combines theoretical debate with empirical evidence to demonstrate anthropology’s unique position in contemporary scholarship and the contemporary world.

Professor Vered Amit Dr Jamie Cross Professor Christina Garsten

Acknowledgements

We are especially indebted to the organisations and people in Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire and Sénégal who generously agreed to collaborate with the authors of this book. Without their precious help and knowledge, it would not have been possible to penetrate the world of religious non-gov- ernmental organisations. We would also like to thank the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) for the funding for the ethnographic and historical research on which this book is based. Finally, we would like to thank Steven Watt, who has translated some of the contributions included in this book and revised the English language in other chapters.

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List of Acronyms

Association des élèves et étudiants musulmans du Burkina Association des élèves et étudiants musulmans de Côte d’Ivoire Archives générales des missionnaires d’Afrique Association des jeunes amis de Djamra Association des jeunes musulmans de Côte d’Ivoire Africa Muslims Agency Alliance missionnaire internationale Association des musulmans sunnite en Côte d’Ivoire Alliance des religieux contre le VIH/SIDA et les autres pandémies Action solidarité islamique Bureau d’études et de liaison Bureau de suivi des ONG Conseil d’actions humanitaires musulmanes de Côte d’Ivoire Comité d’appel à l’islam Community Assistance for Responding to AIDS Commission dialogue, vérité et reconciliation Communauté des élèves et étudiants musulmans de Côte d’Ivoire Cercle d’études, de recherches et de formation islamique Centre hospitalier et universitaire Centre Ihsane pour la formation et l’éducation des jeunes Cellule islamique de réflexion et d’action Communauté musulmane du Burkina Faso Conseil national islamique Conseil national de la révolution Conseil des imams sunnites Conseil des ONG d’appui au développement au Sénégal