Often understood on an international scale, these actors are studied here in their relations with the State, based on an empirical and localised approach. Because they are involved in development policies, they become partners tolerated by those in power, according to different logics of 'discharge'. While their scope of action is carefully negotiated with the public authorities for material, statutory and security reasons, the durability of their actions is due, among other things, to their ability to negotiate combinations of politico-religious imaginations, which does not prevent them from participating in existing relationships of domination.

Some of the articles in this issue are from the first year of the "faith-based NGOs" seminar, run jointly by Dilek Yankaya, Lucas Faure and Nathalie Ferrière.

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