Until recently, policy-makers and academics generally saw religion as something that would disappear as countries made economic progress. But we now know that t

Religion has been excluded from development studies for decades. Religious traditions have contributed greatly towards development work, yet major international

Community development is most effective and efficient when it is situated and led at the local level and considers the social behaviours, needs and worldviews o

This book argues that relationships between religion and development in faith-based development work are constructed through repeated processes of negotiation.

Development is a key concept for thinking about the global relations between nations, in particular between North and South. But what exactly does it entail and