Local Humanitarian Leadership and Religious Literacy: Engaging with Religion, Faith, and Faith Actors

Gingerich, Tara R.; Moore, Diane L.; Brodrick, Robert; Beriont, Carleigh

doi:10.21201/2017.9422

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“…Also in 2015, Moore founded the Religious Literacy Project at Harvard Divinity School, which among other things has sought to apply religious literacy in various professional fields, running symposia on topic areas such as media and entertainment, journalism, immigration services, and humanitarian action. For example, a 2017 study with Oxfam looked at the religious literacy of faith-based relief & development NGOs (Gingerich et al 2017). Moore also added the consideration of "power and powerlessness" to her method for exploring religious literacy, suggesting that questions had to be asked about "which perspectives are politically and socially prominent," and why (Moore 2015).…”

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A Case for Cross-Cultural Religious Literacy

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Hoover

2021

The Review of Faith & International Affairs

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Cross-cultural religious literacy is a comprehensive approach to understanding and conducting the kind of engagement that distinguishes robust, covenantal pluralism from merely indifferent "tolerance" of diversity. Such an approach teaches, respectively, the personal and comparative competencies of knowledge about self, and about the other, as well as the collaborative context in which this knowledge is applied. This approach also teaches the skills-evaluation, negotiation, and communication-of moving toward the other such that shared goals can be identified and implemented.

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Section: The Emerging Field Of Religious Literacymentioning

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A Case for Cross-Cultural Religious Literacy

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Hoover

2021

The Review of Faith & International Affairs

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“…Instead of looking at the religious interpretations employed by diverse groups for their vested interests, religion itself has been seen as the major driver of conflicts. Due appreciation is lacking on both sides that religion and proclaimed secular humanitarianism remains intertwined with politics and development (Fountain et al, 2015;Gingerich et al, 2017). May it be poverty or other development concerns, deep religious undercurrents influence how development agendas take shape and translate into different policy actions.…”

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Opportunities and Challenges of Engagement with the Mosque as a Community-Based Religious Institution

Cheema¹

2021

The Role of Mosque in Building Resilient Communities

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This book aims to examine the role of the mosque as a communitybased religious institution in disaster situations. To achieve this aim, two research questions were addressed. The first examined the role of the mosque in relation to the key actors from the state, civil society and the private sector during the response, relief, recovery, reconstruction and rehabilitation in the aftermath of the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan. The second explored the potential roles of the mosque in similar situations in the future. A case study of the district of Mansehra in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan was presented. Using qualitative research methods, a broad range of actors in disaster management, such as earthquake-affected communities, imams, representatives of civil society organisations, people from the private sector and government organisations, shed light on the above questions.This chapter discusses the findings of this book concerning the literature on disaster management about the role of community-based religious institutions in the context of post-development theory. This chapter concludes and illustrates the distinct contribution of this book to the body of knowledge. Before this research, the role of the mosque had mostly been hidden, undocumented, underestimated and unacknowledged.

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“…Although the integrative approach to disasters has attempted to consider social, cultural and economic factors since the 1980s, the role of religious institutions along with the role of religion itself remains overshadowed and underestimated in the disaster studies literature (Candland, 2000;David K. Chester, 2005). Even now, much below their full potential, most of the government and international disaster-related organisations only involve with religious and faith-based organisations to the extent of disaster response and relief, disregarding engagement for long-term disaster recovery and preparedness (Gingerich et al, 2017;Sheikhi et al, 2020). Overall, there is a gradually increasing realisation among both religious and secular development organisations to explore ways to engage with each other for achieving better results of their common efforts for helping humanity.…”

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Disasters and Religious Institutions

Cheema¹

2021

Islam and Global Studies

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Disasters and Religious Institutions IntroductionDisasters give rise to a situation where people from different parts of the world, quite unfamiliar with each other, come into contact to save lives, provide necessities such as food and shelter, rebuild homes and enable community recovery. Humanitarian and development organisations have concerns about how to keep neutrality, stay safe, ensure respect for local sensitivities and win the necessary support of communities to carry out their job. In many places, during these hard times, community-based religious institutions such as churches, mosques and temples are still but a practical choice for reaching people living nearby to fulfil their needs (Feener & Fountain, 2018;Ngin et al., 2020). Mostly, run by communities through charity in a decentralised manner, these institutions and organisations enjoy community trust and ownership (A. R. Cheema et al., 2014;Gianisa & Le De, 2018). This chapter presents an overview of religious views and approaches to disasters and why religious institutions remain an important stakeholder during and before disasters. Also, it covers some of the key challenges that hinder an effective engagement between religious institutions and large international and national humanitarian organisations.

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Local Humanitarian Leadership and Religious Literacy: Engaging with Religion, Faith, and Faith Actors

Cited by 12 publications

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A Case for Cross-Cultural Religious Literacy

A Case for Cross-Cultural Religious Literacy

Opportunities and Challenges of Engagement with the Mosque as a Community-Based Religious Institution

Disasters and Religious Institutions

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