Building Communities of Character
Foreign Aid Policy and Faith-Based Organizations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23138299 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Scott Thomas (0009-0003-3100-6720, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 133-148 |
| Publication date | 2004-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The SAIS review of international affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1945-4716 • E-ISSN: 1945-4724 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/sais.2004.0045 |
| OpenAlex | W2089207715 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 20 |
In the aftermath of September 11 foreign aid has returned to the center of U.S. foreign policy. Most policymakers have approached the problems of failed or weak states—limited legitimacy, political instability, and religious terrorism or fundamentalism—by saying they are simply the result of incomplete modernization. However, this is a very misleading way to understand the global resurgence of religion. A global struggle for authenticity and development is taking place, and learning how to take cultural and religious pluralism seriously has become one of the most important aspects of foreign policy in the twenty-first century. This article examines how U.S. foreign aid policy can do this by assisting faith-based organizations help the churches, mosques, and temples in developing countries become the kind of "communities of character" that can generate the social capital that contributes to social change and development.
Epistemology · Faith · Foreign policy · Fundamentalism · Legitimacy · Modernization theory · Pluralism (philosophy) · Political economy · Political instability · Political science · Politics · Social capital · Sociology · Terrorism · International Development and Aid · Law · Religion, Society, and Development · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
Finding Faith in Foreign Policy
Doing Better? Religion, the Virtue-Ethics of Development, and the Fragmentation of Health Politics in Tanzania
Hoist by our own petard
Religious actors, civil society and the development agenda
Accountability for Empowerment
Child sponsorship, ordinary ethics and the geographies of charity
Religion and Altruistic U.S. Foreign Policy Goals
Beyond Dualism
The role of a transnational religious network in development in a weak state
The culture of disbelief
The ambivalence of the sacred
Whose Justice? Which Rationality?
Community Organizing
Aid and the Political Economy of Policy Change
After Virtue
Faith as social capital
The New Cold War
Faith-Based Diplomacy Trumping Realpolitik
Religion in International Relations
Social Capital and Development
Genealogies of Religion
Taking Religious and Cultural Pluralism Seriously
Islam in Iran
Forum
Britain's new government, new White Paper, new aid? Eliminating world poverty
Pyramids of sacrifice
The World Bank's Mission Creep
From Max Weber
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,45 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2019 (14) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |