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Material and Spiritual Conceptions of Development

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  • Darren Noy

    (Darren Noy is a PhD candidate at the Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley. [email: darrennoy@berkeley.edu])

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The contemporary world is experiencing a global revival of the public role of religion in shaping modern politics, public policy and social welfare. Correspondingly, a growing group of development scholars and practitioners have sought to understand the intersection of religion and the global development enterprise. However, scholars have yet to fashion an empirically grounded, synthetic framework for analyzing the range of approaches to development, both material and spiritual, that are at play in the world today. This article presents such a framework, drawing on 200 interviews with development practitioners sampled from across nine countries in the global south.

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  • Darren Noy, 2009. "Material and Spiritual Conceptions of Development," Journal of Developing Societies, , vol. 25(3), pages 275-307, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:jodeso:v:25:y:2009:i:3:p:275-307
    DOI: 10.1177/0169796X0902500301
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