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Manuel A. Vasquez’s response to: “The Homo Economicus and transnational...
In today’s post, prof. Manuel A. Vasquez suggests an alternative view to the ‘Homo Economicus’ in his response to Ella Sebamalai’s post on transnational religious networks and faith-based...
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What does “engaging religion” mean for religion?
Last week, the US State Department made the much-anticipated announcement that it is establishing a new “Office of Faith-Based Community Initiatives” whose mission, Secretary of State John Kerry said,...
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Is the ‘new’ religious engagement really all that new? The need for...
In this post, Brenda Bartelink draws on her research on faith based development organisations in the Netherlands and Uganda, and Dutch initiatives to engage with religion to raise some critical points...
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Humanity in Action: Religion, Human Rights and the Question of Neutrality
An aerial view of Za’atri Refugee Camp for Syrian Refugees in Jordan. Public Domain, obtained via Wikimedia In today’s blog post, Brenda Bartelink reflects on aid in humanitarian emergency and disaster...
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The UN Refugee Convention 60 Years On – Time to Rethink Approaches to...
A view of Zaatari refugee camp, Jordan, from August 2013. Source: Foreign and Commonwealth Office, accessed via Wikimedia Commons under Open Government Licence v1.0 This week marks the 60th anniversary...
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Secularism, Security and the Limits of the State: The Displacement Crisis and...
Source: WIkimedia Commons, used under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike Generic 2.0 License Rethinking “security”, the role of the state, the secularist biases that exist in policy and practice...
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Levelling the playing field: Development, religion and the entanglement of...
An Anglican Church in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, where the authors interviewed congregants as part of their research. Source: The authors Stories of transformation in development contexts tend to be...
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Is there a secular humanitarian faith?
Henry Dunant memorial created by the sculptor Charlotte Germann-Jahn, Heiden (Canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Switzerland). Source: Markus Bernet. Obtained from Wikimedia Commons. Used under the...
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Faith and the Asylum Crisis: The role of religion in responding to displacement
Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia, Sudan, the DRC. In each of these contexts, and numerous others, complex dynamics around politics, resources, religion and power are contributing to the creation of a...
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Religious identity and the Refugee Crisis
Today, 20 June, is World Refugee Day. The UNHCR released its annual Global Trends Report. For the first time in the organisation's history, global displacement has crossed the 60 million threshold,...
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