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Summary:

"Founded over a century ago, the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) is regarded as one of the most important institutional carriers of Canadian and American Mennonite identity. Generations of Mennonites and others have served with the organization, carrying out development, disaster relief, and peacebuilding work in over fifty countries globally. The Service of Faith offers an ethnography of MCC's Christian development work in Indonesia, exploring the challenges, conundrums, theologies, and ethical commitments that shape Mennonite service. The success of religious-based development work depends on effectively bridging very different cultural and religious worlds. Braiding together extensive ethnographic and archival research, Philip Fountain analyzes MCC's practices of cultural translation in the Indonesian context. While the particularities of Mennonite religious values are deeply influential for MCC's work, in practice its humanitarian project involves collaboration with a range of actors who come from widely different religious positions. In taking a nuanced, case-specific approach to understanding how faith shapes moral projects, Fountain challenges mainstream claims to secular neutrality and the tendency to dismiss or disapprove of religious motivations in development work. Exploring the diverse ways in which Mennonite convictions permeate MCC's work in Indonesia, The Service of Faith confronts the question of whether religion has a legitimate place in international development work."-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• The Pilgrimage of a Peoplehood Movement
• Translating Service
• The Missions of Development
• Theology and Development
• Peace and Friction
• Orienting Guesthood
• Everyday Embodiments.

Author/Creator:

Fountain, Philip , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The service of faith: an ethnography of Mennonites and development [by Fountain, P.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Service of faith [by Fountain, P.] (Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2024 — ISBN 0228022487; ISBN 9780228022480)

Subjects:

Mennonite Central Committee

Mennonites — Indonesia — Relations

Mennonites — Missions — Indonesia

Economic development projects — Indonesia

Humanitarianism — Religious aspects — Mennonites

Indonesia — Religious life and customs

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 04, 2024).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Call Numbers:

BV2545 .F68 2024eb

ISBNs:

9780228022497 (electronic book)
0228022495 (electronic book)
9780228022503 (electronic book)
0228022509 (electronic book)
9780228022480 (paperback) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1423774747

Other Control Numbers:

EBC31534646 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp21146015