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The Spirit of Development: Protestant NGOs, Morality, and Economics in Zimbabwe
Erica Bornstein
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Description for The Spirit of Development: Protestant NGOs, Morality, and Economics in Zimbabwe
Paperback. A study of two transnational NGOs in Zimbabwe, this book offers a nuanced depiction of development as both liberatory and limiting. Num Pages: 228 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMW; GTF; HRCX6; JPWH; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 157 x 15. Weight in Grams: 334.
Religious NGOs are important sources of humanitarian aid in Africa, entering where the welfare programs of weakened states fail to provide basic services. As collaborators and critics of African states, religious NGOs occupy an important structural and ideological position. They also, however, illustrate a key irony—how economic development, a symbol of science, progress, and this-worldly material improvement, borrows heavily from other-worldly faith.
Through a study of two transnational NGOs in Zimbabwe, this book offers a nuanced depiction of development as both liberatory and limiting. Humanitarian effort is not a hopeless task, but behind the liberatory potential of ... Read more
Religious NGOs are important sources of humanitarian aid in Africa, entering where the welfare programs of weakened states fail to provide basic services. As collaborators and critics of African states, religious NGOs occupy an important structural and ideological position. They also, however, illustrate a key irony—how economic development, a symbol of science, progress, and this-worldly material improvement, borrows heavily from other-worldly faith.
Through a study of two transnational NGOs in Zimbabwe, this book offers a nuanced depiction of development as both liberatory and limiting. Humanitarian effort is not a hopeless task, but behind the liberatory potential of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
Number of Pages
227
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804753364
SKU
V9780804753364
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About Erica Bornstein
Erica Bornstein is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Reviews for The Spirit of Development: Protestant NGOs, Morality, and Economics in Zimbabwe
"Bornstein has written a book that every believer (or unbeliever) in the theology of (African) economic development should read."
Voluntas "Bornstein shows how ideas of material and spiritual development relate to each other in the everyday practices of development executives in California and their counterparts in Zimbabwe. As illustrated here, 'faith-based development' compels fresh engagement with the cosmologies of ... Read more
Voluntas "Bornstein shows how ideas of material and spiritual development relate to each other in the everyday practices of development executives in California and their counterparts in Zimbabwe. As illustrated here, 'faith-based development' compels fresh engagement with the cosmologies of ... Read more