Development, Civil Society and Faith-Based Organizations

GERARD CLARKE is Senior Lecturer in Development Studies at the School of the Environment and Society, Swansea University, UK. He is the author of The Politics of NGOs in South-East Asia: Participation and Protest in the Philippines. MICHAEL JENNINGS is Lecturer in International Development and African Politics at the Centre for Development Studies, Swansea University, UK. His research interests focus on NGOs, civil society and development in East Africa, and on the history and politics of development in this region.

• Preface; G.Carey Introduction; G.Clarke & M.Jennings Faith-Based Organizations and International Development: An Overview; G.Clarke Intelligent Design?: A Gender-Sensitive Interrogation of Religion and Development; R.Pearson & E.Tomalin The Language of Development: What Are International Development Agencies Talking About?; I.Linden The Spirit of Brotherhood: Christianity and Ujamaa in Tanzania; M.Jennings Engaged Citizenship: The Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) in the Post-Authoritarian Philippines; A.Moreno FBOs and Change in the Context of Authoritarianism: The Islamic Centre Charity Society in Jordan; J.Clark Who's Afraid of Religion? Tensions Between Mission and Development in The Norwegian Mission Society; I.Hovland Saudi Arabian NGOs at Work in Somalia: 'Wahabi' Da'wah or Humanitarian Aid?; A.Mohamed with M.Kroessin Faith-Based Organizations as Effective Development Partners? Hezbollah and Post-War Reconstruction in Lebanon; M.Harb Hindu Nationalism and the Social Welfare Strategy; C.Jaffrelot Conclusion; G.Clarke & M.Jennings

'...it is difficult to know where to criticise this timely volume, which should be required reading for academics and practitioners alike.' Martin Rew, Development in Practice