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Religion and Development in the Asia-Pacific
Sacred places as development spaces
Av Matthew Clarke, Anna Halafoff
Häftad, 2019
619 kr
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Community development is most effective and efficient when it is situated and led at the local level and considers the social behaviours, needs and worldviews of local communities. With more than eight out of ten people globally self-reporting religious belief, Religion and Development in the …
Secular and Religious Dynamics in Humanitarian Response
Inbunden, 2019
998 kr
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This book investigates the ways in which the humanitarian system is secular and understands religious beliefs and practices when responding to disasters. The book teases out the reasons why humanitarians are reluctant to engage with what are seen as "messy" cultural dynamics within the communities …
Muslim Women in the Economy
Development, Faith and Globalisation
Av Shamim Samani, Dora Marinova
Inbunden, 2020
2513 kr
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This book explores the changing role of Muslim women in the economy in the twenty-first century. Sociological developments such as secular education, female-focused policies, national and global commitments to gender equality as well as contemporary technological advances have all served to shift …
Sarvodaya Movement
Holistic Development and Risk Governance in Sri Lanka
Inbunden, 2019
2513 kr
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This book provides an important case study of how local cultures, religions and spiritualities can enhance development activities, and provide helpful frameworks for contemporary societies facing the pressures of neo-liberalism. It specifically traces how the influential Sri Lankan Sarvodaya …
International Development and Local Faith Actors
Ideological and Cultural Encounters
Av Kathryn Kraft, Olivia J. Wilkinson
Inbunden, 2020
2513 kr
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This book explores the interplay and dialogue between faith communities and the humanitarian-development community. Faith and religion are key influencers of thought and practice in many communities around the world and development practitioners would not be able to change behaviours for improved …
Theology of International Development
Av Thia Cooper
Inbunden, 2020
983 kr
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Religion and development have been intertwined since development's beginnings, yet faith-based aid and development agencies consistently fail to consider how their theology and practice intersect. This book offers a Christian theology of development, with practical solutions to bridge the gap and …
Development Across Faith Boundaries
Av Anthony Ware, Matthew Clarke
Häftad, 2019
823 kr
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Faith-based organisations (FBOs) have long been recognised as having an advantage in delivering programs and interventions amongst communities of the same faith. However, many FBOs today work across a variety of contexts, including with local partners and communities of different faiths. Likewise, …
African Initiated Christianity and the Decolonisation of Development
Sustainable Development in Pentecostal and Independent Churches
Av Philipp Öhlmann, Wilhelm Gräb m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
2477 kr
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This book investigates the substantial and growing contribution which African Independent and Pentecostal Churches are making to sustainable development in all its manifold forms. Moreover, this volume seeks to elucidate how these churches reshape the very notion of sustainable development and …
Tearfund and the Quest for Faith-Based Development
Av Dena Freeman
Inbunden, 2019
2707 kr
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This book gives an in-depth analysis of the role of faith in the work of Tearfund, a leading evangelical relief and development NGO that works in over 50 countries worldwide.The study traces the changing ways that faith has shaped and influenced Tearfund’s work over the organisation’s 50-year …
Adapting Gender and Development to Local Religious Contexts
A Decolonial Approach to Domestic Violence in Ethiopia
Inbunden, 2020
2513 kr
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This book provides a critical and decolonial analysis of gender and development theory and practice in religious societies through the presentation of a detailed ethnographic study of conjugal violence in Ethiopia.Responding to recent consensus that gender mainstreaming approaches have failed to …
Adapting Gender and Development to Local Religious Contexts
A Decolonial Approach to Domestic Violence in Ethiopia
Häftad, 2023
692 kr
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This book provides a critical and decolonial analysis of gender and development theory and practice in religious societies through the presentation of a detailed ethnographic study of conjugal violence in Ethiopia.Responding to recent consensus that gender mainstreaming approaches have failed to …
Religion–Gender Nexus in Development
Policy and Practice Considerations
Inbunden, 2021
998 kr
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This book illuminates the intersection of religion and gender within the development sector, exposing challenges in both policy and practice and suggesting implementable solutions.This book argues that a better understanding of the religion–gender nexus is needed by development sector …
Religion–Gender Nexus in Development
Policy and Practice Considerations
Häftad, 2023
313 kr
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This book illuminates the intersection of religion and gender within the development sector, exposing challenges in both policy and practice and suggesting implementable solutions.This book argues that a better understanding of the religion–gender nexus is needed by development sector …
Human Development and the Catholic Social Tradition
Towards an Integral Ecology
Inbunden, 2021
998 kr
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This book brings development theory and practice into dialogue with a religious tradition in order to construct a new, transdisciplinary vision of development with integral ecology at its heart.It focuses on the Catholic social tradition and its conception of integral human development, on the one …
Human Development and the Catholic Social Tradition
Towards an Integral Ecology
Häftad, 2023
327 kr
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This book brings development theory and practice into dialogue with a religious tradition in order to construct a new, transdisciplinary vision of development with integral ecology at its heart.It focuses on the Catholic social tradition and its conception of integral human development, on the one …
Christianity’s Role in United States Global Health and Development Policy
To Transfer the Empire of the World
Av John Blevins
Häftad, 2020
721 kr
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In recent years, the role of religion in influencing international health policy and health services provision has been seen as increasingly important. This book provides a social history of the relationship between religion and America's international health policy and practice from the latter …
Between Humanitarianism and Evangelism in Faith-based Organisations
A Case from the African Migration Route
Av May Ngo
Häftad, 2020
721 kr
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Religion has always played an important, if often contested, role in the public domain. This book focuses on how faith-based organisations (FBOs) interact with the public sphere, showing how faith-based actors are themselves shaped by wider processes and global forces such as globalisation, …
Religion and Society in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southern Asia
Häftad, 2020
721 kr
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This book analyses how religion is entangled in people’s lives in Sub-Saharan Africa and southern Asia. It provides an introduction to the teachings, practices and values promoted by the main religious traditions in these regions and an overview of the evidence on what religion means to people in …
Tearfund and the Quest for Faith-Based Development
Av Dena Freeman
Häftad, 2021
692 kr
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This book gives an in-depth analysis of the role of faith in the work of Tearfund, a leading evangelical relief and development NGO that works in over 50 countries worldwide.The study traces the changing ways that faith has shaped and influenced Tearfund’s work over the organisation’s 50-year …
Negotiating Religion and Development
Identity Construction and Contention in Bolivia
Häftad, 2021
692 kr
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This book argues that relationships between religion and development in faith-based development work are constructed through repeated processes of negotiation. Rather than being a neat and tidy relationship, faith-based development work is complex and multifaceted: an ongoing series of negotiations …
Religion and Urbanism
Reconceptualising sustainable cities for South Asia
Inbunden, 2015
2513 kr
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Conceptions of 'sustainable cities' in the pluralistic and multireligious urban settlements of developing nations need to develop out of local cultural, religious and historical contexts to be inclusive and accurately respond to the needs of the poor, ethnic and religious minorities, and women. …
Religion, Heritage and the Sustainable City
Hinduism and urbanisation in Jaipur
Inbunden, 2014
2513 kr
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The speed and scale of urbanisation in India is unprecedented almost anywhere in the world and has tremendous global implications. The religious influence on the urban experience has resonances for all aspects of urban sustainability in India and yet it remains a blind spot while articulating …
Christianity’s Role in United States Global Health and Development Policy
To Transfer the Empire of the World
Av John Blevins
Inbunden, 2018
2588 kr
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In recent years, the role of religion in influencing international health policy and health services provision has been seen as increasingly important. This book provides a social history of the relationship between religion and America's international health policy and practice from the latter …
Secular and Religious Dynamics in Humanitarian Response
Häftad, 2021
371 kr
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This book investigates the ways in which the humanitarian system is secular and understands religious beliefs and practices when responding to disasters. The book teases out the reasons why humanitarians are reluctant to engage with what are seen as "messy" cultural dynamics within the communities …
Sarvodaya Movement
Holistic Development and Risk Governance in Sri Lanka
Häftad, 2021
692 kr
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This book provides an important case study of how local cultures, religions and spiritualities can enhance development activities, and provide helpful frameworks for contemporary societies facing the pressures of neo-liberalism. It specifically traces how the influential Sri Lankan Sarvodaya …
Religion and Gender-Based Violence
Global and Local Responses to Harmful Practices
Av Brenda Bartelink, Chia Longman m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
2513 kr
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This book takes religion as an entry point for a deeper exploration into why practices of gender-based violence continue and what possible actions might help to contribute to their eradication. International donors are committed to reducing and ending gender-related harm, particularly violence …
Religion and Gender-Based Violence
Global and Local Responses to Harmful Practices
Av Brenda Bartelink, Chia Longman m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
648 kr
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This book takes religion as an entry point for a deeper exploration into why practices of gender-based violence continue and what possible actions might help to contribute to their eradication. International donors are committed to reducing and ending gender-related harm, particularly violence …
Theology of International Development
Av Thia Cooper
Häftad, 2021
366 kr
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Religion and development have been intertwined since development's beginnings, yet faith-based aid and development agencies consistently fail to consider how their theology and practice intersect. This book offers a Christian theology of development, with practical solutions to bridge the gap and …
African Initiated Christianity and the Decolonisation of Development
Sustainable Development in Pentecostal and Independent Churches
Av Philipp Öhlmann, Wilhelm Gräb m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
712 kr
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This book investigates the substantial and growing contribution which African Independent and Pentecostal Churches are making to sustainable development in all its manifold forms. Moreover, this volume seeks to elucidate how these churches reshape the very notion of sustainable development and …
Nigerian Pentecostalism and Development
Spirit, Power, and Transformation
Häftad, 2021
692 kr
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This book examines the contributions, both intentional and unintentional, of Nigerian Pentecostal churches and NGOs to development, studying their development practices broadly in relation to the intersecting spheres of politics, economics, health, education, human rights, and peacebuilding. In …
