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Author:   Dena Freeman (Shanghai University, China)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367360214

ISBN 10:   0367360217
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   06 September 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Religious and Secular Actors in the Emergence of Humanitarianism and Development Part 1. A New Kind of Missionary Organisation 3. Tearfund’s First Twenty-Five Years, 1968 – 1993 Part 2. Emerging as a Development NGO 4. Tearfund Joins the Mainstream, 1990-2005 5. The Religious Revitalists and the Quest for Transformation 6. The Globalists and the Localists: The Start of Campaigning and Advocacy Part 3. Becoming an FBO 7. Trying to Institutionalise Faith-Based Approaches, 2005 – 2015 8. Mainstreaming Faith-Based Development, 2015 Onwards Part 4. Paradoxes of Faith-Based Development 9. Conclusion

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This highly significant book explores the work of Tearfund over its first 50 years, emerging in the 1960s as a `new kind of missionary organisation', becoming a major development NGO during the 1990s and then reorienting itself as a faith-based development organisation (FBDO) from the mid-2000s onwards. The insightful analysis unpacks the story of where `faith' sits in this history, telling us as much about shifting social attitudes towards the role of religion in the public sphere as the internal dynamics of this important evangelical relief and development organisation. Skilfully researched and highly readable, this book presents an essential addition to the growing literature on religion, development and humanitarianism, and is especially significant as it is one of the very first in-depth studies of an FBDO. -- Emma Tomalin, Professor of Religion and Public Life, University of Leeds, UK. Dena Freeman's book about Tearfund, the UK's largest evangelical development organization, is a path-breaking and timely contribution to the burgeoning field of global development studies and the prominent role religion plays in development today. Freeman's privileged access enabled her to write a unique account, at once honest and empathetic, of Tearfund's institutional history and the fierce debates that preoccupy staff as they seek to reconcile the antinomy of faith and secularism. More than just the history of an evangelical development organization, this book offers a window onto a history of the contemporary. -- Charles Piot, Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University, USA. This is a gripping story of `development' and its relationship to mission and evangelism. Through detailed interviews and in-depth archive research, Freeman critically analyses how a Non-Governmental Organisation has come to new understandings of `doing development' over the course of its history, from giving grants to missionaries to carrying out development projects in the 1970s, to campaigning for structural policy change to address poverty and climate change today. The book's historico-conceptual analysis is peppered with interesting anecdotes about why things happened the way they did, such as how the Jubilee 2000 debt cancellation campaign started and how the Evangelical Alliance embraced social action and care for creation as part of its mission. Freeman shows in a captivating narrative style the creative tension between evangelism and social action. Both are intimately connected but, she argues, have an `almost entropic tendency to come apart'. This book will be an invaluable resource for students, scholars and practitioners alike to better understand the connections between faith and development, and the role that faith plays in the work of a major faith-based development NGO. -- Severine Deneulin, Associate Professor of International Development, University of Bath, UK. This book opens up fascinating insights about `development' in the 20th century: the emergence of `faith-based' approaches, the plural continuities of missionary interventions, and the mainstreaming of development values and processes in the religious and secular sectors alike. Tracing the story of Tearfund, and the many twists and turns in the understanding of its mandate, Freeman adds a brilliant chapter to the story of how the dividing line between religion and secularity has been negotiated within and through Christianity all along. As such, the book pioneers a much-needed connection between the study of World Christianity and the burgeoning field of religion and development. -- Joerg Haustein, Lecturer in World Christianities, Cambridge University, UK. Freeman has written one of the first books in what will hopefully become a trend - deep histories of faith-based humanitarian and development organizations that examine the role of faith in organizational culture. Faith-based organizations are not a neatly defined category and histories of this sort can demonstrate the internal debates and external pressures that lead organizations to define their own parameters. This book is significant not only for those interested in religion and development research (for whom it is a crucial read), but also for those wishing to understand more about non-profit organizations in general. -- Olivia Wilkinson, Director of Research, Joint Learning Initiative on Faith & Local Communities, Washington DC, USA.

Author Information

Dena Freeman is a Senior Visiting Fellow in the Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Science, where she is also a member of the Laboratory for Advanced Research on the Global Economy and an Associate of the International Inequalities Institute. Her previous books include Pentecostalism and Development: Churches, NGOs and Social Change in Africa (2012), Peripheral People: The Excluded Minorities of Ethiopia (2003), and Initiating Change in Highland Ethiopia: Causes and Consequences of Cultural Transformation (2002).

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