Development and politics from below: exploring religious spaces in the African state

Religion is playing an increasingly central role in African political and developmental life. This book offers an empirical and theoretical reflection on the relationships between religion, politics and development in Africa; the meanings of religion in non-Western contexts and the way that is embedded in the everyday life of people in Africa. INDICE: - Introduction; B.Bompani; M.Frahm-Arp - PART 1: 'CHALLENGING THE SECULAR: RELIGION AND PUBLIC SPACES' - Development and Invisible Worlds; S.Ellis - The Mbuliluli Principle: What is in a Name?; G.ter Haar - Muslim Shrines in Cape Town: Religion and Post-Apartheid Public Spheres; A.Tayob - Remaking Society from Within: Extraversion and the Social Forms of Female Muslim Activism in Urban Mali; D.E.Shulz - PART 2: 'RELIGION BETWEEN STATE AND SOCIETY' - Da'wah and Politics in West Africa: Muslim Jama'at and Non Government organisations in Ghana, Sierre Leone and The Gambia; D.E.Skinner - Faith-based Organisations, the State and Politics in Tanzania; E.T.Mallya - Pentecostal Religion and Development in Urban Mozambique; L.Van de Kamp - PART 3: 'HEALTH CARE PROVISION: REFLECTIONS ON RELIGION' - Health and the Uses of Religion: Recovering the Political Proper?; J.R.Cochrane - Marshalling the Powers: The Challenge of Everyday Religion for Development; E.Graveling - Sacred Struggles: The World Council of Churches and the HIV Epidemic in Africa; E.Chitando - Conclusion: Reflections on Modernisation without Secularisation; B.Bompani; M.Frahm-Arp

• ISBN: 978-0-230-23775-9
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 272
• Fecha Publicación: 27/08/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés