Suggested Readings - Cairo Workshop

 

* indicates highly recommended

Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others
Lila Abu-Lughod

What Do Human Rights Do? An Anthropological Enquiry
Talal Asad

New media, new publics: Reconfiguring the public sphere of Islam
Jon W. Anderson

* Humanitarianism: A Brief History of the Present

Michael Barnett and Thomas Weiss

* Islamic and Christian Inspired Relief NGOs: Between Tactical Collaboration and Strategic Diffidence?
Carlo Benedetti

* Islamic aid in a north Malian enclave
Jonathan Benthall

* Religious Nongovernmental Organizations: An Exploratory Analysis
Julia Berger

* Genealogies of Suffering and the Gift of Care: A Working Paper on the Anthropology of Religion, Secularism, and Humanitarianism
Erica Borenstein and Peter Redfield


* The Imperative to Reduce Suffering: Charity, Progress and Emergencies in the Field of Humanitarian Action
Craig Calhoun

Islam and international humanitarian law: From a clash to a conversation between civilizations

James Cockayne

Christ and Conformity: A Study of Pentecostal Values
Marion Dearman

Deterritorialised Territories, Borderless Borders: The New Geography of International Medical
Assistance

Francois Debrix

The Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) and Faith-Based NGO Aid to Africa
Susan Dicklitch and Heather Rice

Raiding Islam: Searches That Target Religious Institutions
John G. Douglass

* The Problem of Belief
Matthew Engleke

“As Americans Against Genocide”: The Crisis in Darfur and Interreligious Political Activism
Jodi Eichler-Levine and Rosemary R. Hicks

The Ghost in the Machine: Agency in "Poststructural" Critiques of Development
Margaret Everett

* The Quaker way: Ethical labor and humanitarian relief
Ilnana Feldman

* Faith-based and secular humanitarian organizations
Elizabeth Ferris

* Humanitarianism, Islam and the West: contest or cooperation?
Abdel-Rahman Ghandour

Christian NGOs at Work in Health and Emergencies
Steve Hansch

* Capitalism and the Origins of the Humanitarian Sensibility, Part 1
Thomas Haskell

* Humanitarianism and the Muslim World
Masood Hyder

From Fetishism to Sincereity
Webb Keane

* The Effect of Religious Orientation on International Relief and Development Organizations
Fred Kniss and Todd Campbell

* The influence of the Muslim religion in humanitarian aid
Jamal Krafess

Discourse, Politics, and the Development Process: Reflections on Escobar's "Anthropology and the Development Encounter"
Peter D. Little and Michael Painter

Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: A Political Perspective on Culture and Terrorism
Mahmood Mamdani

Some myths about faith-based humanitarian aid
Wilfred Mlay

Civil society and Islamic aid in Iraq: unseen developments and threats
Theo Murphy

Humanitarian Exchnage Magazine No. 37 - March 2007
Overseas Development Institute

Condom Social Marketing, Pentecostalism, and Structural Adjustment in Mozambique: A Clash
of AIDS Prevention Messages

James Pfeiffer

Earthquake jihad: the role of jihadis and Islamist groups after the 2005 earthquake
Jawad Hussain Qureshi

Public Accountability and Faith-Based Organizations: A Problem Best Avoided
David Saperstein

Promises of (im)mediate salvation: Islam, broadcast media, and the remaking of religious
experience in Mali

Dorothea E. Schulz

Hinduism and international humanitarian law
Manoj Kumar Sinha

Political Theology
Carl Schmitt

Youth, sin and sex in Nigeria: Christianity and HIV/ AIDS-related beliefs and behaviour among rural-urban migrants
Daniel Jordan Smith

Humanitarian Action Under Attack: Refections on the Iraq War
Nicolas de Torrente




 

 

 

 
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Professor of Sociology, New York University, and President of the Social Science Research Council
 
 
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