Faith-Based Organizations in Transnational Peacebuilding

Transnational faith-based organizations play a significant role in peacebuilding, development, and human rights advocacy. This book explores how these organizations conceptualize their religious practices, values, and identities, and how these inform their political goals and strategies. It demonstrates the political importance of prayer in these organizations' work and evaluates their distinctive strategies to navigate religious difference. The book proposes a new way to study "religion" in international politics.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 240 pages
\n Publication date: 23 March 2018
\n Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
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Faith-based organizations have a significant impact on transnational peacebuilding, development, and human rights advocacy. These organizations are deeply rooted in religious beliefs and practices, and their political role is informed by these religious ideas and practices. This book explores the relationship between these organizations and their religious identity, values, and practices.

Religions for Peace, the Taizé Community, and International Justice Mission are three transnational faith-based organizations that are examined in this book. These organizations have different religious backgrounds and approaches to their work, but they all share a commitment to promoting peace, justice, and human rights.

Religions for Peace is a global interfaith organization that promotes peace and reconciliation between different religions and cultures. The organization's mission is to build bridges between people of different faiths and promote mutual understanding and respect. Religions for Peace conceptualizes its religious practices, values, and identities in terms of its commitment to promoting peace and reconciliation. The organization believes that prayer is an essential part of its work and uses prayer as a means of promoting peace and reconciliation.

The Taizé Community is a Christian community that promotes peace, justice, and reconciliation through prayer and meditation. The community's mission is to create a community of peacemakers who are committed to living in harmony with each other and with the world around them. The Taizé Community conceptualizes its religious practices, values, and identities in terms of its commitment to living a life of simplicity, love, and service. The community believes that prayer is an essential part of its work and uses prayer as a means of promoting peace and reconciliation.

International Justice Mission is a Christian legal organization that works to protect the rights of vulnerable people around the world. The organization's mission is to bring justice to the poor and oppressed and to promote the rule of law. International Justice Mission conceptualizes its religious practices, values, and identities in terms of its commitment to promoting justice and the rule of law. The organization believes that prayer is an essential part of its work and uses prayer as a means of promoting justice and the rule of law.

The book demonstrates the political importance of prayer in the work of transnational faith-based organizations, specifically in areas of conflict resolution, post-conflict integration, agenda setting, and in constituting narratives about justice and reconciliation. The book also evaluates the distinctive strategies that faith-based organizations employ to navigate religious difference.

A central goal of the book is to propose a new way to study "religion" in international politics, by actively questioning and reflecting on what it means for an act, idea, or community to be "religious." The book challenges traditional understandings of religion as a static and universal phenomenon and instead proposes a more nuanced and contextualized understanding of religion. The book argues that religion is not just a set of beliefs and practices but is also a dynamic and fluid phenomenon that is shaped by a range of social, cultural, and political factors.

In conclusion, this book provides a valuable contribution to the study of religion in international politics. It demonstrates the political importance of prayer in the work of transnational faith-based organizations and proposes a new way to study "religion" in international politics. The book challenges traditional understandings of religion and provides a nuanced and contextualized understanding of religion that is relevant to the study of international politics.

\n Weight: 370g\n
Dimension: 154 x 233 x 19 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781786604101\n \n