The Spirit of Development: Protestant Ngos, Morality, and Economics in Zimbabwe Paperback - 2005
by Erica Bornstein
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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 Christian development lurks the sad irony that change can bring its own disappointments.
While rapt attention has been given to the supposed role of NGOs in democratizing Africa, few studies engage with the ground operations. Questioning the assumption that economic development is a move away from religious mysticism toward the scientific promise of progress, the author offers a remarkable account of development that is neither defeatist nor comforting.
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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 Christian development lurks the sad irony that change can bring its own disappointments.
While rapt attention has been given to the supposed role of NGOs in democratizing Africa, few studies engage with the ground operations. Questioning the assumption that economic development is a move away from religious mysticism toward the scientific promise of progress, the author offers a remarkable account of development that is neither defeatist nor comforting.
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- Title The Spirit of Development: Protestant Ngos, Morality, and Economics in Zimbabwe
- Author Erica Bornstein
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: first
- Pages 227
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Stanford University Press, Stanford CA
- Date 2005-08-08
- ISBN 9780804753364 / 0804753369
- Weight 0.77 lbs (0.35 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.08 x 0.68 in (23.11 x 15.44 x 1.73 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Non-governmental organizations - Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe - Economic policy - Moral and
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005012302
- Dewey Decimal Code 261.850
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