405.2
Evangelizing through Social Work: France and Brazil's Experience
Evangelizing through Social Work: France and Brazil's Experience
Monday, 16 July 2018: 17:45
Location: 809 (MTCC SOUTH BUILDING)
Oral Presentation
This research is justified by the interest which is provoked for the understanding of a missionary youth insertion´s in the religious/humanitarian institutions as professionals of the faith. The objective is to understand the way that France and Brazil considers the proselytistics activities linked to welfare work implemented by the missionary youth. We had focalized on the study of the organisation Youth with a Mission based in both countries as a philanthropic, educational and health NGO.
The members are the central figure in the relationship between religious group and social context. YWAM is an international volunteer movement from many backgrounds and cultures. YWAM’s University operates in 650 locations in the world. According to them, the main goal is to teach and develop spiritually, culturally, intellectually and professionally. The concept and the actions of evangelism and evangelization has attempt also the youth. The ideia of mission is taken in a wide sense and includes many activities in the fields of education and health.
The youth has to engage in social action in order to work in the service of humankind an the dialogue is, for them, essential to reach the goal. Nowadays, the youth engage increasingly in the field of social action, either through activities oriented to assistantships, such as the distribution of food, creation of nurseries, the introduction of professionalizing courses and social transformation, as awareness of the contradictions of social reality and the possibilities of confrontation, commitment to causes that support the increase of social, human and political.
The study is focused on:
To understand the religious landscape, the concept of "Laïcité" and the public funding system for religious organisations in both countries.
To present the interviews realized with the staff and students to understand the organisation's structure, trajectories of life, religious and denominational identity and motivations.
The members are the central figure in the relationship between religious group and social context. YWAM is an international volunteer movement from many backgrounds and cultures. YWAM’s University operates in 650 locations in the world. According to them, the main goal is to teach and develop spiritually, culturally, intellectually and professionally. The concept and the actions of evangelism and evangelization has attempt also the youth. The ideia of mission is taken in a wide sense and includes many activities in the fields of education and health.
The youth has to engage in social action in order to work in the service of humankind an the dialogue is, for them, essential to reach the goal. Nowadays, the youth engage increasingly in the field of social action, either through activities oriented to assistantships, such as the distribution of food, creation of nurseries, the introduction of professionalizing courses and social transformation, as awareness of the contradictions of social reality and the possibilities of confrontation, commitment to causes that support the increase of social, human and political.
The study is focused on:
To understand the religious landscape, the concept of "Laïcité" and the public funding system for religious organisations in both countries.
To present the interviews realized with the staff and students to understand the organisation's structure, trajectories of life, religious and denominational identity and motivations.