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

by Bompani, Barbara; Frahm-Arp, Maria

• ISBN13: 9780230237759
• ISBN10: 0230237754
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-08-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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.

Author Biography

BARBARA BOMPANI is a Teaching Fellow at the Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK, and Director of the "Africa and International Development" Masters program. She has previously published on the topic Religion, Politics and Development both in Italian and in English.

MARIA FRAHM-ARP is Senior Lecturer in Theology at the School of Theology at the St Augustine College, South Africa.

Table of Contents

Foreward	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Notes on Contributors	p. xi
Introduction: Development and politics from Below: New Conceptual Interpretations	p. 1
'Challenging the Secular: Religion and Public Spaces'
Development and Invisible Worlds	p. 23
The Mbuliuli Principle: what is in a Name?	p. 40
Muslim Shrines in Cape Town: Religion and Post-Apartheid Public Spheres	p. 56
Remaking Society from Within: Extraversion and the Social Forms of Female Muslim Activism in Urban Mali	p. 74
'Religion Between State and Society'
Da æwa and Politics in West Africa: Muslim Jama' at and Non-Governmental Organizations in Ghana, Sierre Leone and the Gambia	p. 99
Faith-based Organization, the State and Politics in Tanzania	p. 131
Burying Life: Pentecostal Religion and Development in Urban Mozambique	p. 152
'Health Care Provision: Reflections on Religion'
Health and the used of Religion: Recovering the political Proper?	p. 175
Marshalling the Powers: The Challenge of Everyday Religion for Development	p. 197
Sacred Struggles: The World Council of Churches and the HIV Epidemic in Africa	p. 218
Conclusion: Reflections on Modernization without Secularization	p. 240
Index	p. 252
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