International Development Policy: Religion and Development

1. Religion and Development: Reconsidering Secularism as the Norm
Gilles Carbonnier

Part 1. Religion and Development as a Field of Research and Practice

2. The Myth of Religious NGOs: Development Studies and the Return of Religion
Philip Fountain

3. Revisiting the Religious Revival in Development: A Critique of Philip Fountain
Katherine Marshall

4. On Having Faith in the MDGs: A Response to Katherine Marshall
Philip Fountain

Part 2. Faith-Based Organisations And Secular Development

5. Faith-Based Organisations, Development and the World Bank
Jeffrey Haynes

6. The Perils of Entanglement: Bilateral Donors, Faith-Based Organisations and International Development
Gerard Clarke

7. Religion as a Social Substitute for the State: Faith-Based Social Action in Twenty-First-Century Brazil
Eliott Mourier

8. Transformational Development: World Vision South Africa’s Response to Poverty
Hannah Lindiwe de Wet

Part 3. Religion: Alternatives To Technocratic And Neoliberal Development?

9. The Catholic Doctrine of ‘Integral Human Development’ and its Influence on the International Development Community
Ludovic Bertina

10. ‘Arab Spring’: The Influence of the Muslim Brotherhood and Their Vision of Islamic Finance and the State
Zidane Meriboute

11. Religion: Alternatives To Technocratic And Neoliberal Development?
Levent Ünsaldi

12. The Political Economy of Desire in Ritual and Activism in Sri Lanka
Wim Van Daele

13. Using Religious Capital to Alleviate Poverty? A Case Study of Cross-border Migration in South China
Sam Wong

14. Convictions Beyond the Bomb: Interplays Between Violence, Religion and Development in Sri Lanka
Indika Bulankulame

15. Reflections on the Role of Religion and Faith in Development Discourse and Practice
Moncef Kartas, Kalinga Tudor Silva

Keywords: Religious Studies, Social Aspects of Religion, Sociology of Religion, Development Studies, Development Policy, Poverty, Aid and Development, Religion and Society