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Routledge Research in Religion and Development


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The Routledge Research in Religion and Development series focuses on the diverse ways in which religious values, teachings and practices interact with international development.

While religious traditions and faith-based movements have long served as forces for social innovation, it has only been within the last ten years that researchers have begun to seriously explore the religious dimensions of international development. However, recognising and analysing the role of religion in the development domain is vital for a nuanced understanding of this field. This interdisciplinary series examines the intersection between these two areas, focusing on a range of contexts and religious traditions.

We welcome book proposals on diverse themes such as faith-based development organisations; religious players in health programming; proselytization and development; religion and the environment; gender, religion and development; religion and post-colonialism; and indigenous communities and development.

To submit proposals, please contact the Development Studies Editor, Helena Hurd ([email protected]).

Series Editors:

Matthew Clarke, Deakin University, Australia

Emma Tomalin, University of Leeds, UK

Nathan Loewen, University of Alabama, USA

Editorial board:

Carole Rakodi, University of Birmingham, UK

Gurharpal Singh, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK

Jörg Haustein, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK

Christopher Duncanson-Hales, Laurentian University, Canada

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Institutional Logics within Faith-Based Aid A New Approach to Organising in Development, Humanitarianism and Advocacy

Institutional Logics within Faith-Based Aid: A New Approach to Organising in Development, Humanitarianism and Advocacy

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Nina G. Kurlberg
August 01, 2024

This book investigates what faith means in the actual day-to-day practice of faith-based NGOs working in the development, humanitarian, and advocacy sectors. Faith-based organisations play an extremely prominent role in international aid and development, operating within the same sphere as ...

Faith in Foreign Aid Religious Organizations’ Engagement with USAID

Faith in Foreign Aid: Religious Organizations’ Engagement with USAID

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Susan Turner Haynes
July 12, 2024

The United States contributes more foreign aid than any other state in the world, and it is often recognized as a leader in engaging religious organizations in aid delivery. Faith in Foreign Aid is the first book to closely examine how the relationship between religious organizations and USAID ...

Religion and Gender-Based Violence Global and Local Responses to Harmful Practices

Religion and Gender-Based Violence: Global and Local Responses to Harmful Practices

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Brenda Bartelink, Chia Longman, Tamsin Bradley
May 27, 2024

This book takes religion as an entry point for a deeper exploration into why practices of gender-based violence continue and what possible actions might help to contribute to their eradication. International donors are committed to reducing and ending gender-related harm, particularly violence ...

Religious Organisations in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia Connections to Society and the State

Religious Organisations in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia: Connections to Society and the State

1st Edition

By Carole Rakodi
February 05, 2024

This book explores the links between religion, states, social welfare and social change in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Building on the author’s previous analysis of how religious beliefs, practices and values influence social behaviour and relationships, especially within families, this book...

Adapting Gender and Development to Local Religious Contexts A Decolonial Approach to Domestic Violence in Ethiopia

Adapting Gender and Development to Local Religious Contexts: A Decolonial Approach to Domestic Violence in Ethiopia

1st Edition

By Romina Istratii
May 31, 2023

This book provides a critical and decolonial analysis of gender and development theory and practice in religious societies through the presentation of a detailed ethnographic study of conjugal violence in Ethiopia. Responding to recent consensus that gender mainstreaming approaches have failed to ...

Human Development and the Catholic Social Tradition Towards an Integral Ecology

Human Development and the Catholic Social Tradition: Towards an Integral Ecology

1st Edition

By Séverine Deneulin
May 31, 2023

This book brings development theory and practice into dialogue with a religious tradition in order to construct a new, transdisciplinary vision of development with integral ecology at its heart. It focuses on the Catholic social tradition and its conception of integral human development, on the one...

The Religion–Gender Nexus in Development Policy and Practice Considerations

The Religion–Gender Nexus in Development: Policy and Practice Considerations

1st Edition

By Nora Khalaf-Elledge
January 09, 2023

This book illuminates the intersection of religion and gender within the development sector, exposing challenges in both policy and practice and suggesting implementable solutions. This book argues that a better understanding of the religion–gender nexus is needed by development sector ...

Muslim Women in the Economy Development, Faith and Globalisation

Muslim Women in the Economy: Development, Faith and Globalisation

1st Edition

Edited By Shamim Samani, Dora Marinova
April 15, 2020

This book explores the changing role of Muslim women in the economy in the twenty-first century. Sociological developments such as secular education, female-focused policies, national and global commitments to gender equality as well as contemporary technological advances have all served to shift ...

Nigerian Pentecostalism and Development Spirit, Power, and Transformation

Nigerian Pentecostalism and Development: Spirit, Power, and Transformation

1st Edition

By Richard Burgess
April 15, 2020

This book examines the contributions, both intentional and unintentional, of Nigerian Pentecostal churches and NGOs to development, studying their development practices broadly in relation to the intersecting spheres of politics, economics, health, education, human rights, and peacebuilding. In ...

International Development and Local Faith Actors Ideological and Cultural Encounters

International Development and Local Faith Actors: Ideological and Cultural Encounters

1st Edition

Edited By Kathryn Kraft, Olivia J. Wilkinson
March 31, 2020

This book explores the interplay and dialogue between faith communities and the humanitarian-development community. Faith and religion are key influencers of thought and practice in many communities around the world and development practitioners would not be able to change behaviours for improved ...

A Theology of International Development

A Theology of International Development

1st Edition

By Thia Cooper
February 13, 2020

Religion and development have been intertwined since development's beginnings, yet faith-based aid and development agencies consistently fail to consider how their theology and practice intersect. This book offers a Christian theology of development, with practical solutions to bridge the gap and ...

African Initiated Christianity and the Decolonisation of Development Sustainable Development in Pentecostal and Independent Churches

African Initiated Christianity and the Decolonisation of Development: Sustainable Development in Pentecostal and Independent Churches

1st Edition

Edited By Philipp Öhlmann, Wilhelm Gräb, Marie-Luise Frost
January 16, 2020

This book investigates the substantial and growing contribution which African Independent and Pentecostal Churches are making to sustainable development in all its manifold forms. Moreover, this volume seeks to elucidate how these churches reshape the very notion of sustainable development and ...

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