Faith and the secular: tensions in realising humanitarian principles

There is good reason to engage faith-based organisations and local faith communities in humanitarian response but doing so raises challenging issues for the interpretation of humanitarian principles in what some see as a post-secular age.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Alastair Ager
Format: Article
Language:Arabic
Published: University of Oxford 2014-11-01
Series:Forced Migration Review
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Online Access:http://www.fmreview.org/faith/ager
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description There is good reason to engage faith-based organisations and local faith communities in humanitarian response but doing so raises challenging issues for the interpretation of humanitarian principles in what some see as a post-secular age.
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Faith and the secular: tensions in realising humanitarian principles
Forced Migration Review
refugee
IDP
stateless
internal displacement
forced migration
migration
faith
religion
faith communities
faith-based
title Faith and the secular: tensions in realising humanitarian principles
title_full Faith and the secular: tensions in realising humanitarian principles
title_fullStr Faith and the secular: tensions in realising humanitarian principles
title_full_unstemmed Faith and the secular: tensions in realising humanitarian principles
title_short Faith and the secular: tensions in realising humanitarian principles
title_sort faith and the secular tensions in realising humanitarian principles
topic refugee
IDP
stateless
internal displacement
forced migration
migration
faith
religion
faith communities
faith-based
url http://www.fmreview.org/faith/ager
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