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PENTECOSTALISM AND DEVELOPMENT
CHURCHES, NGOS AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN AFRICA |
| By: |
Dena Freeman (Editor) |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£69.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1137017252 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781137017253 |
| Publisher: |
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
3 September, 2012 |
| Series: |
Non-Governmental Public Action |
| Description: |
Development was founded on the belief that religion was not important to development processes. The contributors call this assumption into question and explore the practical impacts of religion by looking at the developmental consequences of Pentecostal Christianity in Africa, and by contrasting Pentecostal and secular models of change. |
| Synopsis: |
The practice and discipline of development was founded on the belief that religion was not important to development processes. As societies developed and modernised, it was assumed that they would also undergo a process of secularisation. However, the prominence of religion in many countries and its effects on people's social, political and economic activities calls this assumption into question. Pentecostal Christianity has spread rapidly throughout Africa since the 1980s and has been a major force for change. This book explains why and shows how Pentecostalism articulates with local level development processes. As well as exploring the internal model of 'development' which drives Pentecostal organisations, contributors compare Pentecostal churches and secular NGOs as different types of contemporary development agents and discern the different ways in which they bring about change. At the heart of this book, then, is an exploration of processes of individual and social transformation, and their relevance to understandings of the successes and failures of development. |
| Illustrations: |
2 black & white tables |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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