ABSTRACT
Volunteer-based neoliberal associations", larger than the professionalized ones in terms of volunteers and activists, combined provision and developmental activities. In most volunteer-based associations, provision outweighed development. A neoliberal intervention in the communitarianism-dominated field was the individualization of religion. Nour's objection to the communitarians' comprehensive religion went hand in hand with its eulogy of volunteerism. The Nour's overall religious strategy was individualizing religion, but then also mobilizing it communally through one-on-one interactions. The author encounters mixed attitudes among the staff, though the latter veered more towards the management's position. The business tendencies in Generosity Fund association were stronger than in Nour, but the Generosity Fund did not go as far as professionalized neoliberal associations. Among lower-level staff and volunteers, neoliberal actors had been involved very little in civil society; their current associations were usually their first civic experience. Most of the managers, however, had experience with Islamic movements in their youth.
