β Scribed by Arnhild Leer-Helgesen
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Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
Introduction
Religion and development
Negotiating religion and development
Religion, spirituality and development in Bolivia
Challenging βdevelopmentβ from a theological perspective
Methodological and analytical approach
Outline of the book
Notes
References
2 Theoretical perspectives on religion and development
Introduction
Exploring religion
Dimensions of religion in development work
Searching for development
Power and resistance in faith-based development work
Instrumentalisation of religion or of development
The role of FBOs and their characteristics
The normative enterprise of development work
Notes
References
3 Religion and development in Bolivia: resistance and decolonisation
Introduction
The process of change in Bolivia and the role of ethnicity
Decolonisation and interculturality
Religion and spirituality in Bolivia
Challenging and questioning development
The political discourse of vivir bien
Notes
References
4 Constructing a faith-based identity
Introduction
MAN-B:a faith-based NGO
IELB: a church engaged in social development
Influential relations
Churches as actors of development
βWell, God decided itβ: personal religious identities
Performed religious identities: weekly devotions
Separating religion and development
Notes
References
5 Theological frameworks for understanding development
Introduction
Latin American theological discourses
Integral mission, diakonia and the Kingdom of God
βI came that they may have life, and have it abundantlyβ (Jn 10:10)
Challenging and competitive interpretations
Contradictory messages in MAN-B
IELB: the Church in the world
Ordering of theological discourses
Notes
References
6 Faith-based discourses of development
Introduction
Integral development: human development with a spiritual dimension
Diakonia as βthe Gospel in actionβ
Recontextualisation of suma qamaΓ±a
Suma qamaΓ±a and faith identity
Power dynamics of faith-based discourses
Negotiating discourses of faith and development
Notes
References
7 Practising integral development
Introduction
A visit to the communities of Cheje and Aguas Blancas
Sharing the Word by words
Religious performances
Local churches as tools or goals
Religious and cultural values
Giving Pepsi to Pachamama: mediating cultural and religious identities
Contentious gender issues
Ways of acting, interacting and being
Notes
References
8 Unresolved tensions in faith-based development
Introduction
Constructing faith-based identities
Faith-based views of development
Influence and power
Broadening the scope of negotiations
The contextual cultural dimension
The heterogeneity of Christianity
Negotiating boundaries
Notes
References
9 Conclusion: negotiations and contentions of religion and development
Introduction
References
Appendix
Index
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