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The Spirit of Development

Protestant NGOs, Morality, and Economics in Zimbabwe [Paperback]

by Erica Bornstein

    • Author

      Erica Bornstein

    • Book Format

      Paperback

    • Publisher

      Stanford University Press

    • Published

      August 2005

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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. Through a study of two transnational NGOs in Zimbabwe, this book offers a nuanced depiction of development as both liberatory and limiting. Humanitarian effort is not a hopeless task, but behind the liberatory potential of Christian development lays the sad irony that change can bring its own disappointments. While rapt attention has been given to the supposed role of NGOs in democratizing Africa, few studies engage with the ground operations; Questioning the assumption that economic development is a move away from religious mysticism toward the scientific promise of progress, the author offers a remarkable account of development that is neither defeatist nor comforting.

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      • Author

        Erica Bornstein

      • Book Format

        Paperback

      • Publisher

        Stanford University Press

      • Published

        August 2005

      • Weight

        350g

      • Page Count

        228

      • Dimensions

        155 x 232 x 18 mm

      • ISBN

        9780804753364

      • ISBN-10

        0804753369

      • Eden Code

        1194611

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      • Author/Creator: Erica Bornstein

      • ISBN: 9780804753364

      • Publisher: Stanford University Press

      • Release Date: August 2005

      • Weight: 350g

      • Dimensions: 155 x 232 x 18 mm

      • Eden Code: 1194611


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