Development and Politics from Below: Exploring Religious Spaces in the African State

Book Overview

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349315168
• ISBN13: 9781349315161
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 257 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"