Table Of ContentTHE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK
OF RELIGIONS AND GLOBAL
DEVELOPMENT
This Handbook provides a cutting-edge survey of the state of research on religions and global
development. Part 1 highlights critical debates that have emerged within research on religions
and development, particularly with respect to theoretical, conceptual and methodological
considerations, from the perspective of development studies and its associated disciplines.
Parts 2 to 6 look at different regional and national development contexts and the place of
religion within these. These parts integrate and examine the critical debates raised in Part 1 within
empirical case studies from a range of religions and regions. Different religions are situated within
actual locations and case studies, thus allowing a detailed and contextual understanding of their
relationships to development to emerge. Part 7 examines the links between some important areas
within development policy and practice where religion is now being considered, including:
• faith-based organizations and development
• public health, religion and development
• human rights, religion and development
• global institutions and religious engagement in development
• sustainable development, climate change and religion
• economic development and religion
• religion, development and fragile states
• development and faith-based education.
Taking a global approach, the Handbook covers Africa, Latin America, South Asia, East and
South-East Asia, and the Middle East. It is essential reading for students and researchers in
development studies and religious studies, and is highly relevant to those working in area studies,
as well as a range of disciplines, from theology, anthropology and economics to geography,
international relations, politics and sociology.
Emma Tomalin is the Director of the Centre for Religion and Public Life and a Senior
Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Leeds, UK.
“Comprehensive, clear and cutting-edge, this volume offers the first truly global survey of
the intertwining of religions with development. All the contributions are authoritative, up-to-
date and firmly rooted in command of theoretical ideas and case studies. It should be essential
reading for researchers, policy makers and practitioners concerned with development.” – James
A. Beckford, University of Warwick, UK
“This new Handbook is the first to present an extensive overview of an important emerging
subject – religion in development. Combining an interdisciplinary approach with case studies
from all parts of the world, this volume makes a unique contribution to our scholarly knowledge.
I recommend it to academics and practitioners alike.” – Gerrie ter Haar, Erasmus University
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
“This book represents a remarkable achievement. It not only offers a wide and comprehensive
introduction to religion and development in theory and practice, it also propels the study of
religion into a more truly global frame of reference. It will be read with great profit by students,
academics, practitioners and policymakers alike.” – Linda Woodhead, Lancaster University, UK
“A valuable and comprehensive overview of what has become a mature field of study. Twenty-
nine carefully researched chapters demonstrate that religion can no longer be pushed to the
margins in analyses of economic development. The case studies in this volume will define the
field and inspire future research.” – Erica Bornstein, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
THE ROUTLEDGE
HANDBOOK OF
RELIGIONS AND GLOBAL
DEVELOPMENT
Edited by Emma Tomalin
First published 2015
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The Routledge handbook of religions and global development/edited by Emma Tomalin.
pages cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Economic development—Religious aspects. 2. Economic development—Religious
aspects—Case studies. 3. Sustainable development—Religious aspects.
4. Sustainable development—Religious aspects—Case studies. I. Tomalin, Emma,
editor of compilation. II. Title: Handbook of religions and global development.
HD75.R68 2015
338.9—dc23
2014026988
ISBN: 978-0-415-83636-4 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-203-69444-2 (ebk)
Typeset in Bembo
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CONTENTS
List of figures viii
List of tables ix
List of contributors x
Acknowledgements xiv
1 Introduction 1
Emma Tomalin
PART 1
Critical debates for religions and global development 15
2 Development, religion and modernity 17
Carole Rakodi
3 Researching religions and development 36
Tara Hefferan
4 Theology and development: Christian and Jewish approaches 53
Stephen Plant and Daniel H. Weiss
5 A history of faith-based aid and development 68
Gregory Deacon and Emma Tomalin
6 Proselytizing development 80
Philip Fountain
PART 2
Sub-Saharan Africa 99
7 Religion and development in Sub-Saharan Africa: an overview 101
Barbara Bompani
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8 Pentecostalism and economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa 114
Dena Freeman
9 Masculinities, HIV and religion in Africa 127
Adriaan van Klinken and Ezra Chitando
PART 3
Latin America 139
10 Development and religious change in Latin America 141
Paul Freston
11 Inca roads, Protestant hospitals, Catholic cheese, and the
fluctuating state: religion and development in Ecuador 156
Jill DeTemple
12 The Catholic Church, contemporary sexual politics and development
in Latin America 167
Juan Marco Vaggione
PART 4
South Asia 181
13 Religion and development in India and Pakistan: an overview 183
Emma Tomalin
14 Caste and the conundrum of religion and development in India 200
David Mosse
15 Religion, gender and development in South Asia 215
Tamsin Bradley and Nida Kirmani
PART 5
East and South-East Asia 231
16 Religion and development in China 233
André Laliberté
17 Critical perspectives on religions – especially Christianity – in the
development of South Korea post-1945 250
Kirsteen Kim
18 Religion and gender in developing South-East Asia 266
Monica Lindberg Falk
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PART 6
The Middle East and North Africa 281
19 Religion and development in the Middle East and
North Africa (MENA): poverty relief or social transformation? 283
Rana Jawad
20 Islamic finance, financial inclusion and poverty reduction in MENA 293
Amin Mohseni-Cheraghlou
21 Sexuality, development and Islamophilia in the Arab uprisings:
the missing links 315
Mariz Tadros
PART 7
Development policy and practice 329
22 Faith-based organizations and development 331
Laurie A. Occhipinti
23 Religion at the intersection of development and public health in
development contexts: from advocacy about faith-based organizations
to systems thinking 346
Jill Olivier
24 Conflict or compatibility? Reflections on the nexus between human rights,
development and religion in Muslim aid organizations 359
Marie Juul Petersen
25 Complex global institutions: religious engagement in development 373
Katherine Marshall
26 Sustainable development, climate change and religion 389
Sigurd Bergmann
27 Religion and economic development 405
Daromir Rudnyckyj
28 Religion, development, and fragile states 418
Seth D. Kaplan
29 Development organizations’ support for faith-based education: recent
turns toward ethics and dialogue 434
Amy Stambach
Index 448
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FIGURES
20.1 Account penetration rates by region, 2011 294
20.2 Financial exclusion 296
20.3 Reasons for financial exclusion, 2011 297
20.4 Reasons for financial exclusion by region, 2011 297
20.5 Financially excluded for religious reasons, 2011 304
20.6 Differences in financial inclusion between Muslims and
non-Muslims, 2011 305
20.7 Islamic microfinance schemes, number of active clients, by product type 309
20.8 Religious reasons and other reasons for not having an account 311
26.1 Estimated deaths attributed to climate change 390
26.2 Conflict constellations in selected hotspots 401
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TABLES
20.1 Reasons for financial exclusion by country, 2011 298
20.2 Determinants of financial exclusion for religious reasons 306
20.3 Density of Shari’ah-compliant assets and financial exclusion for
religious reasons 307
20.4 Density of Shari’ah-compliant assets and financial obstacles for firms 307
20.5 Overview of main Islamic financial instruments 310
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