The Spirit of Development: Protestant Ngos, Morality, and Economics in Zimbabwe

by Erica Bornstein

Book Overview

Religious NGOs are important sources of humanitarian aid in Africa, entering where the welfare programs of weakened states fail to provide basic services. As collaborators and critics of African states, religious NGOs occupy an important structural and ideological position. They also, however, illustrate a key irony--how economic development, a symbol of science, progress, and this-worldly material improvement, borrows heavily from other-worldly faith...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804753369
• ISBN13: 9780804753364
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 227 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"