The (Anti-)Politics of Volunteer Management Practices in Faith-Based Organizations
نام نخستين پديدآور
Thomas G. Kirsch
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
محل نشرو پخش و غیره
Leiden
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
Brill
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
Based on an ethnographic analysis of volunteer management practices in faith-based organizations in Zambia, this article outlines the dilemmas that these organizations face when deploying volunteers. Due to financial constraints, most of these organizations have to rely on voluntary work from local residents in order to realize their goals. I show that when the volunteers' work is concerned with social problems that are deemed to be controversial, faith-based organizations are at pains to demonstrate that their aims and activities should be categorized as 'social work' or 'humanitarian assistance', and not as activist (party) political engagement. Yet since volunteers are only loosely linked to these organizations in respect to their formal status, in practice they have a great deal of leeway in how issues are handled. This means that some of them use their commitment to volunteering to pursue their own political agendas. The article explores the strategies that faith-based organizations use to navigate the challenges that this kind of 'partisan volunteering' pose.
مجموعه
تاريخ نشر
2021
توصيف ظاهري
403-427
عنوان
Journal of Religion in Africa
شماره جلد
49/3-4
شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها
1570-0666
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اصطلاح موضوعی
activism
اصطلاح موضوعی
African Studies
اصطلاح موضوعی
Anthropology of Religion
اصطلاح موضوعی
Christianity
اصطلاح موضوعی
faith-based organizations
اصطلاح موضوعی
History of Religion
اصطلاح موضوعی
Religion
اصطلاح موضوعی
Religious Studies
اصطلاح موضوعی
Sociology of Religion
اصطلاح موضوعی
volunteer management practices
اصطلاح موضوعی
Zambia
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