Holy Humanitarians - American Evangelicals and Global Aid

Informationen zum Autor Heather D. Curtis is Associate Professor of Religion at Tufts University. Klappentext Heather D. Curtis lays bare the theological motivations, social forces, cultural assumptions, business calculations, and political dynamics that shaped Americäs ambivalent embrace of evangelical philanthropy. In the process she uncovers the seeds of today¿s heated debates over the politics of poverty relief and international aid. Zusammenfassung Heather D. Curtis lays bare the theological motivations! social forces! cultural assumptions! business calculations! and political dynamics that shaped America's ambivalent embrace of evangelical philanthropy. In the process she uncovers the seeds of today's heated debates over the politics of poverty relief and international aid.

Product details

• Authors: Heather D Curtis, Heather D. Curtis, Curtis Heather D.
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.04.2018
• EAN: 9780674737365
• ISBN: 978-0-674-73736-5
• No. of pages: 344
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State, RELIGION / Ethics, CHRISTIAN, RELIGION / Christian Ministry / Missions, RELIGION / Christian Ministry / Evangelism, RELIGION / Christianity / General, International Relations, Christian mission & evangelism, Christianity, Poverty & unemployment, Religion & politics, Religious ethics, Religion and Politics, History of the Americas, Religious mission and Religious Conversion, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Religion, Politics & State, Poverty and precarity