Should We Have Faith in Faith‐Based Social Services? Rhetoric Versus Realistic Expectations

Gibelman, Margaret; Gelman, Sheldon R.

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“…More specifically, its origins can be traced to the era of the Republican government of George W. Bush in the USA (2001-09), during which there was an increased desire to draw religious organisations into public life around the agendas of social cohesion and service delivery (for example, Amirkhayan et al 2008;Gibelman and Gelman 2002). This favouring of religious organisations in the public sphere was matched by the allocation of designated funding streams for both domestic and international projects and was a trajectory that influenced the priorities of the Labour government of Tony Blair in the UK (1997)(1998)(1999)(2000)(2001)(2002)(2003)(2004)(2005)(2006)(2007) (Dinham et al 2009).…”

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Thinking about faith-based organisations in development: where have we got to and what next?

Tomalin¹

2012

Development in Practice

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This paper takes stock of current thinking about the nature and distinctiveness of faith-based organisations (FBOs) in development. Since the 1990s, public policy-linked scholarship from the USA has sought to define and categorise FBOs. More recently, many donors have increasingly chosen to work with and fund such organisations, giving rise to discussions about how FBOs working in development should be defined and classified, and how their contribution to development should be assessed. While many of the available studies portray FBOs as having comparative advantages over so-called secular organisations, this paper concludes that such a generalisation over-simplifies reality, particularly in the absence of convincing evidence. Further assessments of the characteristics, roles, and activities of all types of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are needed to assist in the choice of development partners and to test claims of distinctiveness and comparative advantage.Réflexion sur les organisations à base religieuse dans le développement : où en sommesnous et quelles sont les étapes suivantes ? Cet article fait le point sur la réflexion actuelle concernant la nature et le caractère distinct des organisations à base religieuse (OBR) dans le développement. Depuis les années 1990, la réflexion théorique en matière de politiques publiques venue des É tats-Unis a cherché à définir et à catégoriser les OBR. Plus récemment, de nombreux bailleurs de fonds ont de plus en plus souvent décidé de travailler avec ces organisations et de les financer, ce qui a donné lieu à des discussions sur la manière dont les OBR qui travaillent dans le secteur du développement devraient être définies et classifiées, et sur la manière dont leur contribution au développement devrait être évaluée. Bien que nombre des études disponibles décri-vent les OBR comme étant dotées d'avantages comparatifs par rapport aux organisations soi-disant laïques, cet article conclut que cette généralisation simplifie excessivement la réalité, en particulier en l'absence de données convaincantes. Des évaluations supplémen-taires des caractéristiques, des rôles et des activités de tous les types d'organisations non gouvernementales (ONG) sont requises pour faciliter le choix de partenaires de développe-ment et pour mettre à l'épreuve les revendications ayant trait au caractère distinct et à l'avantage comparatif.Pensando sobre organizações baseadas na fé no desenvolvimento: até onde chegamos e o que vem a seguir? Este artigo organiza ideias atuais sobre a natureza e distinção de Organizações Baseadas na Fé (OBFs) no desenvolvimento. Desde a década de 1990, bolsa de estudo ligada a políticas públicas dos EUA tem buscado definir e classificar as OBFs. Mais recentemente, vários doadores têm cada vez mais escolhido trabalhar com tais organizações e financiá-las, estimulando o debate sobre como as OBFs trabalhando na área de desenvolvimento devem ser definidas e classificadas e como sua contribuição para o desenvolvimento deve ser avaliada. Embora muitos dos estudos di...

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Thinking about faith-based organisations in development: where have we got to and what next?

Tomalin¹

2012

Development in Practice

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“…For example, the Hudson Institute' s Faith in Communities initiative has developed a Faith-Based Ministries Code of Conduct that includes a statement focused on evaluation: "We commit ourselves to credible and objective evaluation procedures and to maintaining clear and documented participant records so as to facilitate proper assessment of program performance" (Hudson Institute, n.d.). Gibelman and Gelman (2002), in their review of press reports on cases of wrongdoing in FBOs, concluded that FBOs appear to be as likely as their secular counterparts to experience incidents resulting from managerial and organizational inadequacies.…”

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The devil is in the details: Implementing secular outcome measurement methods in faith‐based organizations

Fischer

2004

Nonprofit Mgmnt & Ldrshp

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“…Paul's research focuses on the issue of whether religiosity affects development of social welfare and health institutions in the U.S., suggesting that religious fervour may suppress citizens' support for universal high quality health care. The apparent effects of religiosity on support for social services has led some (e.g., Gibelman and Gelman 2002) to question whether public services should be delivered by religious-based organizations.…”

Section: Religion In the Usmentioning

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Public Managers' Religiosity: Impacts on Work Attitudes and Perceptions of Co-Workers

Bozeman¹,

Murdock

2007

International Public Management Journal

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Do public managers' religious beliefs and behaviors affect their work and their work-related attitudes? Perhaps due to the sensitive nature of this question, there is almost no empirical work on the topic. Our study uses questionnaire data (n ¼ 765) from the National Administrative Studies Project-III to test hypotheses about the impacts of U.S. public managers' religiosity, as well as their political activity, on work attitudes. Religiosity is defined by public managers' responses about attending religious services. Political behavior is defined in terms of membership in political organizations and election groups. An application of ordinary least squares regression shows that religious public managers tend to have a stronger orientation toward job security and a more favorable view of their organization and fellow employees. Public managers are no more or less oriented to security than other respondents in the sample, but they have more negative views about their organization and fellow employees. These findings do not change when obvious controls are introduced into the model.

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Should We Have Faith in Faith‐Based Social Services? Rhetoric Versus Realistic Expectations

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Cited by 38 publications

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Thinking about faith-based organisations in development: where have we got to and what next?

Thinking about faith-based organisations in development: where have we got to and what next?

The devil is in the details: Implementing secular outcome measurement methods in faith‐based organizations

Public Managers' Religiosity: Impacts on Work Attitudes and Perceptions of Co-Workers

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