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Religious non-governmental organizations (RNGOs) and philanthropic activitiesin Indonesia have a long history. They existed prior to the creation of the nationstate. Social, political and economic changes in this country have influenced thedevelopment of non-profit organizations for more than sixty years after the Inde-pendence of the Republic Indonesia in 1945. Modernization and developmentprojects during the President Suharto era influenced the development of Non-governmental organizations (NGOs). In more recent years, RNGOs have largelydeveloped as a response to the socio-economic crisis after the downfall of Presi-dent Suharto regime. Discovering the dynamics of RNGOs in a broader context ofnon-profit organizations in Indonesia provides insights into the strengths andweaknesses of philanthropic activism in recent years. An historical overview ofnon-profit organizations, legal structures, functions, and financial resources areamong the themes that are described in this paper.Organisasi Agama Non Pemerintah (RNGOs) dan kegiatan filantropi di Indonesiamemiliki sejarah yang panjang. Mereka ada sebelum penciptaan negara bangsa.Perubahan sosial, politik dan ekonomi di negara ini telah memengaruhiperkembangan organisasi nirlaba selama lebih dari enam puluh tahun setelah Kemerdekaan Republik Indonesia pada tahun 1945. Modernisasi dan pembangunanproyek-proyek selama era Presiden Soeharto memengaruhi perkembanganorganisasi non-pemerintah (LSM). Dalam tahun-tahun terakhir, RNGOs sebagianbesar telah dikembangkan sebagai tanggapan terhadap krisis sosial-ekonomisetelah jatuhnya rezim Presiden Soeharto. Menemukan dinamika RNGOs dalamkonteks yang lebih luas dari organisasi nirlaba di Indonesia memberikan wawasanke dalam kekuatan dan kelemahan dari aktivisme filantropi dalam beberapa tahunterakhir. Sebuah gambaran sejarah organisasi non-profit, struktur hukum, fungsi,dan sumber daya keuangan adalah salah satu tema yang dijelaskan dalammakalah ini

Examining the involvement of religious NGOs (RNGOs) at the UN, this book explores whether they polarize political debates at the UN or facilitate agreement on policy issues. The number of RNGOs engaging with the United Nations (UN) has grown considerably in recent years: RNGOs maintain relations with various UN agencies, member-state missions, and other NGOs, and participate in UN conferences and events. This volume includes both a quantitative overview of RNGOs at the UN and qualitative analyses of specific policy issues such as international development, climate change, business and human rights, sexual and reproductive health and rights, international criminal justice, defamation of religions, and intercultural dialogue and cooperation. The contributions explore the factors that explain the RNGOs' normative positions and actions and scrutinise the assumption that religions introduce non-negotiable principles into political debate and decision-making that inevitably lead to conflict and division. Presenting original research on RNGOs and issues of global public policy, this volume will be relevant to both researchers and policy-makers in the fields of religion and international relations, the United Nations, and non-state actors and global governance.

Clara Braungart analysiert die Rolle religiöser Nichtregierungsorganisationen (RNGOs) in der Vergangenheitsaufarbeitung. Sie untersucht RNGOs, die am IStGH und gleichzeitig auch in Kenia und Uganda tätig sind, und beschreibt ihre Position im Feld der Vergangenheitsaufarbeitung. Gleichzeitig zeigt sie, wie diese Positionen zustande kommen: Insbesondere der jeweilige Kontext und die religiöse Tradition beeinflussen die Position einer Organisation und religiöse Werte wie Versöhnung werden je nach Kontext unterschiedlich interpretiert.

"Exploring faith-based organizations (FBOs) in current developmental discourses and practice, this book presents a selection of empirical in-depth case-studies of Christian FBOs and assesses the vital role credited to FBOs in current discourses on development.

Examining the engagement of FBOs with contemporary politics of development, the contributions stress the agency of FBOs in diverse contexts of development policy, both local and global. It is emphasised that FBOs constitute boundary agents and developmental entrepreneurs: they move between different discursive fields such as national and international development discourses, theological discourses, and their specific religious constituencies. By combining influxes from these different contexts, FBOs generate unique perspectives on development: they express alternative views on development and stress particular approaches anchored in their theological social ethics.

This book should be of interest to those researching FBOs and their interaction with international organizations, and to scholars working in the broader areas of religion and politics and politics and development."

Since the turn of the twenty-first century, there has been a remarkable surge of interest among both policy makers and academics on religion and its engagements with development. Within this context, 'religious non-governmental organizations (RNGOs)' or 'faith-based organizations' (FBOs) have garnered considerable attention. Early attempts to understand FBOs often took the form of typological mapping exercises, the cumulative effect of which has been the construction of a field of 'RNGOs' that can be analysed as distinct from—and possibly put into the service of—the work of purportedly secular development actors. However, such typologies imply problematic distinctions between over-determined imaginations of separate spheres of 'religion' and 'development'. In this article, we innovatively extend the potential of ethnographic approaches highlighting aspects of 'brokerage' and 'translation' to FBOs and identify new, productive tensions of convergent analysis. These, we argue, provide original possibilities of comparison and meta-analysis to explore contemporary entanglements of religion and development.This article was written as part of a broader research project on Religion and NGOs in Asia. We are grateful to the Henry R. Luce Initiative on Religion in International Affairs at the Henry Luce Foundation for their generous support of this research. We would also like to thank Philip Fountain and other members of the National University of Singapore's Asia Research Institute for stimulating conversations that have informed our thinking in this article, and the anonymous reviewers for PIDS who have helped us to improve on earlier drafts.

Welche Ziele und Motivationen verfolgen religiöse und glaubensbasierte zivilgesellschaftliche Akteure in den internationalen Beziehungen und auf transnationaler Ebene? Mittels der Erkenntnisse der politikwissenschaftlichen Normen- und NGO-Forschung zu normen- und interessengeleitetem Handeln von Normunternehmern betrachtet die Autorin die spezifische Form religiöser Nichtregierungsorganisationen (RNGOs) bzw. glaubensbasierter Nichtregierungsorganisationen (FBOs). Damit widerlegt sie die in der Global Governance dominante Wahrnehmung von religiösen Akteuren als moralische, altruistische und normgeleitete Akteure. Anhand empirischer Fallstudien zu katholischen, protestantischen, islamischen und interreligiösen NGOs in den Politikfeldern der sexuellen und reproduktiven Gesundheit und Rechte sowie der Frauenrechte stellt sie dar, dass religiöse Akteure genauso wie säkulare Akteure Interessen verfolgen – und zwar nicht nur im politischen, sondern auch im religiösen Feld. Sie beabsichtigen z. B. die Reformulierung von Normen oder gar ihren Wandel. FBOs verhandeln aber u. a. auch Macht, Identität, Repräsentativität oder das Verhältnis von Religion und Politik. Damit zeigt die Autorin auf, dass sich religiöse zivilgesellschaftliche Akteure im Grenzstreifen zwischen religiösem und säkularem politischem Feld bewegen, in dem Religion und Säkulares in eine wechselseitige Beziehung treten und Interdependenzen entstehen, die gegenseitigen Einfluss und Instrumentalisierung ermöglichen.

Cover -- From a Quiet Revolution to the Tolerance of Ambiguity: Religious NGOs in International Development Discourse -- A Quiet Revolution -- The Reluctant Discovery of Religion -- The Great Global Transformation -- RNGOs' Abilities in Sustainable Development -- Tolerance of Ambiguity -- Multireligious Case-Studies -- Outline of the Volume -- Section I: Religious NGOs and International Development Politics -- Religious Engagement in Development Work: A Continuing Journey -- Introduction: the "resurgence" of interest in religious matters -- Definition challenges -- Global agendas, religious involvement -- The religious landscape in development work -- A bumpy path to religious engagement -- Eight live topics to address on religious engagement -- Religion and violence -- Motivations and boundaries: the issue of Proselytizing -- Controversies on gender -- Coordination and harmonization -- Governance issues -- Instrumentalization debates -- Human rights -- Debates about models -- The United Nations and Development: What do Religious Actors Add to Debates about Achieving Better Outcomes? -- Introduction -- Development concerns at the United Nations -- The World Bank, the WCC and the MDGs -- The World Bank, the WCC and SDGs: Building Cooperation between Religious and Secular Development Actors -- Conclusion -- Transculturation Grammars in Secular and Religious Development NGOs -- 1 Introduction -- Development -- Religion -- Spirituality -- Secularity -- 2 The "balancing identity" skill -- 2.1 Elements of cultural anthropology and the sociology of religions -- 2.2 Elements of communication skills -- 3 The differentiation skill: "fundamentalist vs fundamental" -- 3.1 Conceptualizing religion -- 3.2 Fundamentalist and fundamental -- 3.3 Fundamentalism and fundamental options: sociology of comparative religions -- 3.4 The fundamentalist radicality.