Philippine Daily Inquirer: Role of religions in development: a blind spot for many?
Religions take part in development. This statement was unpacked in a two-day meeting organized last week by the Ateneo Policy Center, with Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Communities, and ...
“Religion and Security in Nigeria,” authored by John Campbell, is a chapter in the Routledge Handbook of Religion and Security. The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Security breaks new ground by ...
The Pew Forum interviewed Katherine Marshall following a roundtable on religion and international development co-sponsored by the Forum and the Council on Foreign Relations. Ms. Marshall is the ...
Religion is a collection of cultural systems, belief systems, and worldviews that relate humanity to spirituality and, sometimes, to moral values. Religions and related social and cultural structures ...
Institute of Development Studies: Religion and Development: A Practitioner’s Perspective on Instrumentalisation
Some international development agencies from Europe and North America, as well as some multilateral agencies, have played a critical role in instrumentalising religion in their development policy and ...
Despite a long-standing commitment to ‘bottom-up’ and participatory approaches, development policy is still largely determined by logframes and the perspectives of senior development professionals far ...
African countries are seen as being both deeply religious and underdeveloped. Could religion be the underlying problem? Or is the misrepresentation of faith a hindrance to greater development? Africa ...
AllAfrica.com: Africa: Religion & Development - an Enhanced Approach or a Transaction?
United Nations — Since 2008, a number of articles/opinions have been written, on the nexus between religion and development. In chronological order, the articles first made the case for why 'religion ...