Sacred Aid

Faith and Humanitarianism

Автор: Michael N. Barnett, Janice Gross Stein

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Издател: Oxford University Press Inc

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The global humanitarian movement, which originated within Western religious organizations in the ear...

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Автор

Michael N. Barnett, Janice Gross Stein

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

2012

страници

270

EAN

9780199916023

ISBN

0199916020

Enbook ID

04536633

Издател

Oxford University Press Inc

Теглоt

596

Размери

162 x 240 x 22

Пълно описание

The global humanitarian movement, which originated within Western religious organizations in the early nineteenth century, has been of most important forces in world politics in advancing both human rights and human welfare. While the religious groups that founded the movement originally focused on conversion, in time more secular concerns came to dominate. By the end of the nineteenth century, increasingly professionalized yet nominally religious organization shifted from reliance on the good book to the public health manual. Over the course of the twentieth century, the secularization of humanitarianism only increased, and by the 1970s the movement's religious inspiration, generally speaking, was marginal to its agenda. However, beginning in the 1980s, religiously inspired humanitarian movements experienced a major revival, and today they are virtual equals of their secular brethren. From church-sponsored AIDS prevention campaigns in Africa to Muslim charity efforts in flood-stricken Pakistan to Hindu charities in India, religious groups have altered the character of the global humanitarian movement. Moreover, even secular groups now gesture toward religious inspiration in their work. Clearly, the broad, inexorable march toward secularism predicted by so many Westerners has halted, which is especially intriguing with regard to humanitarianism. Not only was it a highly secularized movement just forty years ago, but its principles were based on those we associate with

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