Pentecostalism and development: churches, NGOs and social change in Africa

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 onpeople's social, political and economic activities calls this assumption intoquestion. Pentecostal Christianity has spread rapidly throughout Africa sincethe 1980s and has been a major force for change. This book explains why and shows how Pentecostalism articulates with local level development processes. Aswell as exploring the internal model of 'development' which drives Pentecostal organisations, contributors compare Pentecostal churches and secular NGOs asdifferent 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. INDICE: The Pentecostal Ethic and the Spirit of Development; .D.Freeman.PARTI: PENTECOSTALISM AND THE NEOLIBERAL TURN .Pentecostalism, Populism and the New Politics of Affect; .J.Comaroff. .Prosperity Gospels and Enchanted Worldviews: Two Responses to Socio-Economic Transformations in Tanzanian Pentecostal Christianity; .P.Hasu .Pentecostalism and Post-Development: Pentecostal Development Ideologies in Ghanaian Migrant Communities; .R.van Dijk .PART II: CHURCHES AND NGOS: DIFFERENT ROUTES OF SALVATION .Pentecostal and Development Imaginaries in West Africa; .C.Piot. .Saving Development: Secular NGOs, the Pentecostal Revolution, and the Search for a Purified Political Space in the Taita Hills, Kenya; .J.Smith .Development and the Rural Entrepreneur: Pentecostals, NGOs and the Market in the Gamo Highlands, Ethiopia; .D.Freeman. .Pentecostalism,Development NGOs and Meaning in Eastern Uganda; .B.Jones .Agents of Gendered Change: Empowerment, Salvation and Gendered Transformation in Urban Kenya; .D.Parsitau.

• ISBN: 978-1-1370-1724-6
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 240
• Fecha Publicación: 24/08/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido