Development and Politics from Below

1. Introduction: Development and Politics from Below: New Conceptual Interpretations
Barbara Bompani, Maria Frahm-Arp

Part I. ‘Challenging the Secular: Religion and Public Spaces’

2. Development and Invisible Worlds
Stephen Ellis

3. The Mbuliuli Principle: What is in a Name?
Gerrie Haar

4. Muslim Shrines in Cape Town: Religion and Post-Apartheid Public Spheres
Abdulkader Tayob

5. Remaking Society from Within: Extraversion and the Social Forms of Female Muslim Activism in Urban Mali
Dorothea E. Schulz

Part II. ‘Religion Between State and Society’

6.
Da‘wa and Politics in West Africa: Muslim Jama‘at and Non-Governmental Organizations in Ghana, Sierre Leone and The Gambia
David E. Skinner

7. Faith-based Organizations, the State and Politics in Tanzania
Ernest T. Mallya

8. Burying Life: Pentecostal Religion and Development in Urban Mozambique
Linda Kamp

Part III. ‘Health Care Provision: Reflections on Religion’

9. Health and the Uses of Religion: Recovering the Political Proper?
James R. Cochrane

10. Marshalling the Powers: The Challenge of Everyday Religion for Development
Elizabeth Graveling

11. Sacred Struggles: The World Council of Churches and the HIV Epidemic in Africa
Ezra Chitando

12. Conclusion: Reflections on Modernization without Secularization
Barbara Bompani, Maria Frahm-Arp

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, African Politics, Development Studies, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Children's Literature, Development Economics, Religion and Society