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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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‘Challenging the Secular: Religion and Public Spaces’
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‘Religion Between State and Society’
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‘Health Care Provision: Reflections on Religion’
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'The editors of this volume pose major challenges to the research community: to re-evaluate the concepts, assumptions and methods that may veil rather than illuminate contemporary African societies and to develop a better understanding of the relationships between religion, politics, development and modernity. The authors of the individual chapters make a valuable contribution to this research agenda by examining aspects of the place of religion in public spaces; how religions function and shape people's lives, communities and organizations; and the role of religion in the sphere of health.' - Carole Rakodi, Director of the Religion and Development Research Programme, International Development Department, University of Birmingham, UK
'This groundbreaking volume makes a significant contribution to an emerging field in Development Studies. Drawing from a variety of disciplines, its wide-ranging and original set of essays demonstrates the centrality of religious ideas and practices - Traditional, Christian and Islamic - to contemporary African popular culture and their capacity to shape public life and politics. Focusing on the beliefs and passions of ordinary religious adherents, the essays make a compelling case for a holistic human centred model of development and highlight the inadequacy of hitherto dominant western secular models. The collection is required reading for policy makers, practitioners and researchers working in development.'- David Maxwell, Professor of African History, Keele University, UK
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Development and Politics from Below
Book Subtitle: Exploring Religious Spaces in the African State
Editors: Barbara Bompani, Maria Frahm-Arp
Series Title: Non-Governmental Public Action
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230283206
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-23775-9Published: 16 July 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-31516-1Published: 01 January 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-28320-6Published: 16 July 2010
Series ISSN: 2946-2916
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2924
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 257
Topics: African Politics, Development Studies, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Children's Literature, Development Economics, Religion and Society