Contemporary calls for relief, aid, or charity span numerous domains of care and increasingly exist in the absence of a…
When mercy doesn’t season justice: Rights versus humanitarian relief
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Enchanted complicity
Could there be anything more American than flying to a remote and impoverished place with no goal other than a…
A tale of two flotillas
Given the close relationship, globally, between religious political action and religious charities, it should come as no surprise that there…
“Killing in the Name of. . .”
Ayça Çubukçu on state sovereignty and the political theology of humanitarian intervention with regard to the ongoing crisis in Libya,…
Humanity
From the opening statement of the editorial collective of Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development:, published…
Faith-based solutions
In the New York Times, Nicolas Kristoff suggests that if secular liberals and religious actors who are working to help those…
So close and yet so far
“The sound rose up and spread across the rooftops of the old city, a deep, guttural, Biblical sound---the sound of…
Disaster, religion, and resilience
Most of us seem to know intuitively that resilience matters for post-disaster recovery, yet we also know that Haiti desperately…
Taking the high road in Haiti
Hearkening back to the cataclysmic Lisbon earthquake of 1755 and its reverberations in Euro-American culture, Paula Cooey reviews some of…
Remaking the world
Are international relations theorists about to awake from their long secular slumber and discover that the world has had, has,…