The Spirit of Development: Protestant Ngos, Morality, and Economics in Zimbabwe

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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0804753369

ISBN13:9780804753364

Release Date:August 2005

Publisher:Stanford University Press

Length:227 Pages

Weight:0.85 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"

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