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Finalist for the 2019 Albert J. Raboteau Prize for Best Book in
Africana Religions An innovative study of Christianity and society
in Cameroon that illuminates the history of faith and cultural
transformation among societies living under French rule 1914 to
1939. Between the two World Wars, the radical innovations of
African Catholic and Protestant evangelists repurposed Christianity
to challenge local and foreign governments operating in the
French-administered League of Nations Mandate of Cameroon.
Walker-Said explores how African believers transformed foreign
missionary societies into profoundly local religious institutions
with indigenous ecclesiastical hierarchies and devotional social
and charitable networks,devising novel authority structures to
control resources and govern cultural and social life. She analyses
how African Christian religious leaders transformed social and
labour relations, contesting forced labour and authoritarian
decentralized governance as threats to family stability and
community integrity. Inspired by Catholic and Protestant doctrines
on conjugal complementarity and social equilibrium, as well as by
local spiritual and charismatic movements, African Christians
re-evaluated and renovated family and community authority
structures to address the devastating changes colonialism wrought
in the private sphere. The history of these reform-minded believers
reveals howfamily intimacies and kinship ties constituted the force
of community resistance to oppression and also demonstrates the
relevance of faith in the midst of a tumultuous series of forces
arising out of the colonial situation peculiar to Cameroon.
Finalist for the 2019 Albert J. Raboteau Prize for Best Book in
Africana Religions An innovative study of Christianity and society
in Cameroon that illuminates the history of faith and cultural
transformation among societies living under French rule 1914 to
1939. Between the two World Wars, the radical innovations of
African Catholic and Protestant evangelists repurposed Christianity
to challenge local and foreign governments operating in the
French-administered League of Nations Mandate of Cameroon.
Walker-Said explores how African believers transformed foreign
missionary societies into profoundly local religious institutions
with indigenous ecclesiastical hierarchies and devotional social
and charitable networks,devising novel authority structures to
control resources and govern cultural and social life. She analyses
how African Christian religious leaders transformed social and
labour relations, contesting forced labour and authoritarian
decentralized governance as threats to family stability and
community integrity. Inspired by Catholic and Protestant doctrines
on conjugal complementarity and social equilibrium, as well as by
local spiritual and charismatic movements, African Christians
re-evaluated and renovated family and community authority
structures to address the devastating changes colonialism wrought
in the private sphere. The history of these reform-minded believers
reveals howfamily intimacies and kinship ties constituted the force
of community resistance to oppression and also demonstrates the
relevance of faith in the midst of a tumultuous series of forces
arising out of the colonial situation peculiar to Cameroon.
With this book, Charlotte Walker-Said and John D. Kelly have
assembled an essential toolkit to better understand how the
notoriously ambiguous concept of corporate social responsibility
(CSR) functions in practice within different disciplines and
settings. Bringing together cutting-edge scholarship from leading
figures in human rights programs around the United States, they
vigorously engage some of the major political questions of our age:
what is CSR, and how might it render positive political change in
the real world? The book examines the diverse approaches to CSR,
with a particular focus on how those approaches are siloed within
discrete disciplines such as business, law, the social sciences,
and human rights. Bridging these disciplines and addressing and
critiquing all the conceptual domains of CSR, the book also
explores how CSR silos develop as a function of the competition
between different interests. Ultimately, the contributors show that
CSR actions across all arenas of power are interdependent,
continually in dialogue, and mutually constituted. Organizing a
diverse range of viewpoints, this book offers a much-needed
synthesis of a crucial element of today's globalized world and asks
how businesses can, through their actions, make it better for
everyone.
With this book, Charlotte Walker-Said and John D. Kelly have
assembled an essential toolkit to better understand how the
notoriously ambiguous concept of corporate social responsibility
(CSR) functions in practice within different disciplines and
settings. Bringing together cutting-edge scholarship from leading
figures in human rights programs around the United States, they
vigorously engage some of the major political questions of our age:
what is CSR, and how might it render positive political change in
the real world? The book examines the diverse approaches to CSR,
with a particular focus on how those approaches are siloed within
discrete disciplines such as business, law, the social sciences,
and human rights. Bridging these disciplines and addressing and
critiquing all the conceptual domains of CSR, the book also
explores how CSR silos develop as a function of the competition
between different interests. Ultimately, the contributors show that
CSR actions across all arenas of power are interdependent,
continually in dialogue, and mutually constituted. Organizing a
diverse range of viewpoints, this book offers a much-needed
synthesis of a crucial element of today's globalized world and asks
how businesses can, through their actions, make it better for
everyone.
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