This book explores the links between religion, states, social welfare and social change in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Building on the authors previous analysis of how religious beliefs, practices and values influence social behaviour and...Lasīt vairāk
This book investigates the interplay between disability and religion in Africa, and what this means in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals.The importance of meeting the needs of people with disabilities is highlighted specifica...Lasīt vairāk
This book investigates what faith means in the actual day-to-day practice of faith-based NGOs working in the development, humanitarian, and advocacy sectors. This book investigates what faith means in the actual day-to-day pr...Lasīt vairāk
The USA contributes more foreign aid than any other state in the world, and is often recognized as a leader in engaging religious organizations in aid delivery. The book will be of interest to researchers across public policy, development, religio...Lasīt vairāk
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 end...Lasīt vairāk
This book analyses how religion is entangled in peoples 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...Lasīt vairāk
This book brings development theory and practice into dialogue with the religious tradition, to construct a new, trans-disciplinary vision of development. For researchers and students in development studies, theology, and religious studies, as wel...Lasīt vairāk
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. For researchers and practitioner...Lasīt vairāk
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...Lasīt vairāk
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 end...Lasīt vairāk
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...Lasīt vairāk
This book is an important contribution to the growing body of literature on faith and development, and will be useful both to researchers, and to practitioners working with faith communities. This book explores the interplay and dia...Lasīt vairāk
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...Lasīt vairāk
Religion and development have been intertwined since developments 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 developme...Lasīt vairāk
This book illuminates the intersections 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 religio...Lasīt vairāk
The book provides an important case study of how local cultures, religions and spiritualties can enhance development activities, and provide helpful frameworks for contemporary societies facing the pressures of neoliberalism. ...Lasīt vairāk
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...Lasīt vairāk
This book brings development theory and practice into dialogue with the religious tradition, in order to construct a new, trans-disciplinary vision of development, with integral ecology at its heart. It focuses on the Catholic social tradition and i...Lasīt vairāk
