Material and Spiritual Conceptions of Development

Darren Noy
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Darren Noy: Darren Noy is a PhD candidate at the Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley. [email: darrennoy@berkeley.edu]

Journal of Developing Societies, 2009, vol. 25, issue 3, 275-307

Abstract: The contemporary world is experiencing a global revival of the public role of religion in shaping modern politics, public policy and social welfare. Correspondingly, a growing group of development scholars and practitioners have sought to understand the intersection of religion and the global development enterprise. However, scholars have yet to fashion an empirically grounded, synthetic framework for analyzing the range of approaches to development, both material and spiritual, that are at play in the world today. This article presents such a framework, drawing on 200 interviews with development practitioners sampled from across nine countries in the global south.

Keywords: religion; development; secularization; ideal types (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1177/0169796X0902500301

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