Global aid and faith actors: the case for an actor-orientated approach to the 'turn to religion'
Global aid and faith actors: the case for an actor-orientated approach to the 'turn to religion'
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全球援助和信仰行动者：以行动者为导向的“转向宗教”方法的案例
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10.1093/ia/iiaa006
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发表时间：
2020
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4.5
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Tomalin E
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Tomalin E
在这篇文章中，借鉴发展社会学家诺曼·朗的工作，我提出了一种以行动者为导向的方法来理解过去几十年来全球援助行动者的“转向宗教”。我问，“转向宗教”是后世俗伙伴关系出现的证据，还是信仰行为者被利用来服务于新自由主义的发展目标？我认为，这两种选择都没有抓住整个故事，并主张对宗教与发展的研究需要超越“转向宗教”作为后世俗伙伴关系的证据或世俗全球援助业务对宗教“工具化”的证据之间的二元对立，而是思考信仰行为者本身如何遇到和塑造发展话语和框架，将其转化为相关的格式，并战略性地加以利用。除了采取以行动者为导向的方法外，我还以刘易斯和莫斯、奥利维耶·德萨丹和比尔申克的工作为基础，将国际信仰组织视为发展经纪人和翻译者。这种方法使我能够清楚地表达IFBO的许多成员所扮演的独特角色，他们报告说，他们作为中介人，在世俗发展语言和当地信仰伙伴的信仰语言之间转换。我把信仰行为者参与新的可持续发展目标框架作为一个案例研究来探讨这一点。
In this article, drawing on the work of the development sociologist Norman Long, I make the case for an actor-oriented approach to understanding the ‘turn to religion’ by global aid actors over the past couple of decades. I ask, is the ‘turn to religion’ evidence of the emergence of post-secular partnerships or are faith actors being instrumentalized to serve neo-liberal development goals? I argue that neither option captures the whole story and advocate that the study of religion and development needs to move beyond a binary between the ‘turn to religion’ as either evidence of post-secular partnerships or of the ‘instrumentalization’ of religion by the secular global aid business, and instead to think about how faith actors themselves encounter and shape development discourses and frameworks, translate them into relevant formats and strategically employ them. Alongside the adoption of an actor-orientated approach, I build on the work of Lewis and Mosse, Olivier de Sardan and Bierschenk to view international faith-based organizations (IFBOs) as development brokers and translators. This approach allows me to articulate the distinctive role that many members of IFBOs report they play as intermediaries who shift register between the secular development language and the faith-inspired language of their local faith partners. I take the engagement of faith actors with the new Sustainable Development Goals framework as a case-study to explore this.