International Development Policy Religion and Development [Paperback]

The rise of fundamentalist movements in major religions has forced decision-makers, development organizations and academics to turn their attention to its meaning for development. Global scholars and practitioners examine these issues and fundamentally question the secular-religious dichotomy in development discourse and practice.Religion and Development: Reconsidering Secularism as the Norm; Gilles Carbonnier PART I: FAITH AND DEVELOPMENT AS A FIELD OF RESEARCH AND PRACTICE 1. The Myth of Religious NGOs: Development Studies and the Return of Religion; Philip Fountain 2. Revisiting the Religious Revival in Development: A Critique of Philip Fountai; Katherine Marshall 3. On Having Faith in the MDGs: A Response to Katherine Marshall; Philip Fountain PART II: FAITH-BASED ORGANISATIONS AND SECULAR DEVELOPMENT 4. Faith-based Organisations, Development and the World Bank; Jeffrey Haynes 5. The Perils of Entanglement: Bilateral Donors, Faith-Based Organisations and International Development; Gerard Clarke 6. Religion as a Social Substitute for the State: Faith-Based Social Action in Brazil in the Twenty-First Century; Eliott Mourier 7. Transformational Development: World Vision South Africa's Response to Poverty; Hannah Lindiwe de Wet PART III: RELIGION: ALTERNATIVES TO TECHNOCRATIC AND NEOLIBERAL DEVELOPMENT? 8. The Catholic Doctrine of 'Integral Human Development' and its Influence on the International Development Community; Ludovic Bertina 9. 'Arab Spring': The Influence of the Muslim Brotherhood and Their Vision of Islamic Finance and the State; Zidane Meriboute 10. Between Neoliberalism and Morality: The Muslim Conception of Development in Turkey; Levent ?nsaldi 11. The Political Economy of Desire in Ritual and Activism in Sri Lanka; Wim Van Daele 12. Using Religious Capital to Alleviate Poverty?: A Case Study of Cross-border Migration in South China; Sam Wong 13. Convictions Beyond the Bomb: Interplays Between Violence, Religion anl#,