Religion in Development | Rewriting the Secular Script

Severine Deneulin (u. a.)

ISBN 10: 1848130007 / ISBN 13: 9781848130005

Published by Bloomsbury 3PL, 2009

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Religion in Development | Rewriting the Secular Script | Severine Deneulin (u. a.) | Buch | Gebunden | Englisch | 2009 | Bloomsbury 3PL | EAN 9781848130005 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Religion in Development | Rewriting the Secular Script
• Publisher: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1848130007
• ISBN 13: 9781848130005
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 222W x 145H x 14D millimeters 222 millimeters width by 145 millimeters height by 14 millimeters depth
• Weight: 382 grams
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Synopsis

Development practice is full of examples of the importance of religion in the lives of people in developing countries. However, religion has largely remained unexplored in development studies. This timely new book aims to fill that gap. The authors expertly review how religion has been treated in the evolution of development thought, how it has been conceptualised in the social sciences, and highlights the major deficiencies of the assumption of secularism.

The book argues that development theory and practice needs to rewrite its dominant script regarding its treatment of religion, a script which has so far been heavily inscribed in the secular tradition. It puts forward an understanding of religions as traditions: that religions rest on central thesis and teachings which never cease to be re-interpreted in the light of the social, political and historical context. In addition to providing a conceptual framework for analysing the role of religion in development, the book provides numerous empirical examples drawn from the Christian and Islamic religious traditions. This comprehensive new guide to this key issue is essential for students, development thinkers and practitioners who wish to understand better the role that religion plays in development processes and outcomes.

About the Author

Séverine Deneulin is Lecturer in International Development at the University of Bath, UK. She holds a DPhil in Development Studies from the University of Oxford, and an MA in Economics from the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium. She has published The Capability Approach and the Praxis of Development (Palgrave MacMillan, 2006) and co-edited Transforming Unjust Structures (Springer, 2006).

Masooda Bano holds an ESRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Department of International Development, University of Oxford and is a Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford. She was awarded MPhil in Development Studies at Cambridge and DPhil at Oxford and also is a Research Associate at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies. She has acted as a consultant to many international development agencies including DFID, UNESCO and Save the Children (UK).