Religion and Development: Ways of Transforming the World
In an effort to bridge the often cavernous gap between secular development and religion, the World Bank helped initiate The World Faiths Development Dialogue in 1998. This edited volume is in many ways the fruit of that initiative. In asking how religious communities and development groups can come...
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Format: | Electronic Review |
Language: | English |
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Oxford Univ. Press
2012
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Sociology of religion
Year: 2012, Volume: 73, Issue: 4, Pages: 459-461 |
Review of: | Religion and development (London : Hurst & Co, 2011) (Reynolds, Amy)
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Summary: | In an effort to bridge the often cavernous gap between secular development and religion, the World Bank helped initiate The World Faiths Development Dialogue in 1998. This edited volume is in many ways the fruit of that initiative. In asking how religious communities and development groups can come together for a common goal, the contributors rely upon a wide set of disciplinary perspectives: anthropology, sociology, political science, religious studies, economics, history, and physics. Just as diverse are the development concerns they address: poverty, human rights, banking, microfinance, health assets, and HIV/AIDS. Yet all of these selections address religion in its complexity, and take its role for development seriously. |
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ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srs065 |