Time, (com)passion, and Ethical Self-Formation in Evangelical Humanitarianism

This article examines narratives, images, and stories that give insight to everyday experimentation and ethical self-formation. I use the case of World Vision and its early leaders to unpack genealogies of American evangelical humanitarianism. Rather than seeking to identify American evangelicalism’...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of religious ethics
1. VerfasserIn: Henquinet, Kari B. (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Wiley-Blackwell [2020]
In: Journal of religious ethics
Jahr: 2020, Band: 48, Heft: 4, Seiten: 596-619
weitere Schlagwörter:B Ethics
B Humanitarianism
B Passion
B foreign aid
B Anthropology
B Compassion
B Time
B Evangelicalism
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Zusammenfassung:This article examines narratives, images, and stories that give insight to everyday experimentation and ethical self-formation. I use the case of World Vision and its early leaders to unpack genealogies of American evangelical humanitarianism. Rather than seeking to identify American evangelicalism’s normative ethical stance, I aim to expand the discussion in anthropology of ethics on ethical self-formation through examining the tensions, reflections, and processes of becoming among evangelical humanitarians. In doing so, I examine two focal areas of ethical self-formation among early World Vision leaders. The first is oscillation between and mixing of passion and compassion frameworks in the American evangelical imagination. Second, I identify a range of temporal frames that evangelicals draw on to make sense of and formulate ethical responses to human needs encountered abroad.
ISSN:1467-9795
Enthält:Enthalten in: Journal of religious ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/jore.12334