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For many scholars and policymakers, religion has made an emphatic comeback in the past few decades. Religion’s salience in the political and socio-cultural spheres now seems unavoidable and the attention being paid to the emerging intersections of religion and development stands as a testimony to this trend. The tendency of treating religion as antithetical to modern rationality and hence as an obstacle to developmental thinking has become passé and instead the potential and possibilities offered by religion to make development more effective have attracted widespread support (ter Haar 2011). The globalising world of the neoliberal era has fundamentally altered the roles of state and civil society and it is within this context that religion, in the forms of faith-based organisations and religious civil society, has emerged as a force to be reckoned with within developmental discourses (Benthall and Bellion-Jourdan 2003; Bayat 2007; Marshall 2011).
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Santhosh, R. (2015). Islamic Activism and Palliative Care: An Analysis from Kerala, India. In: Fountain, P., Bush, R., Feener, R.M. (eds) Religion and the Politics of Development. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137438577_5
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