Intercultural Human Rights Law Review
First Page
227
Abstract
Religious Sisters within the Roman Catholic Church (sometimes referred to as "Women Religious" or simply "Nuns") are involved in fundamental economic and social development, human rights, and anti-slavery/anti-human trafficking work around the world, as well as driving essentially feminist and economic equality agendas within the wider the populations and communities in which they live. Much of the work carried out by these Religious Sisters resembles that of non-sectarian Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). But, unlike most NGOs, the Religious Sisters tend not to: work to a specific job description, produce annual reports, release the results of monitoring and evaluation, prepare grant proposals setting "key performance indicators" for their programs, and only rarely attend conferences of the NGO community operating within the same social change/human rights milieu. There are also essential differences between Religious Sisters and non-sectarian development and aid workers in their mode of working, their level of involvement and commitment, and in their psychological (they might say "spiritual") orientation to their work. In a previous research study, we sought to elucidate the work-lives and skills that typify the day-to-day existence of Religious Sisters, and through them, give us a better understanding of their relatively undocumented and unanalyzed orientations and work practices. In that work, we sought to decipher the "skillset" of Religious Sisters. In this study, we explore attitudinal differences between Religious Sisters and a larger population of charity supporters. To do so we must first review the findings of the previous study.
Recommended Citation
Saikia Bidisha, Datta Monti, Luka de Pulford & Kevin Bales,
Exploring the Worldview of Religious Sister: A Comparative Empirical Analysis of Altruistic/Voluntaristic Attitudes,
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Intercultural Hum. Rts. L. Rev.
227
(2022).
Available at:
https://scholarship.stu.edu/ihrlr/vol17/iss1/12