Pentecostalism and Development: Churches, NGOs and Social Change in Africa

D. Freeman

Sept. 2012 · Springer

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Development was founded on the belief that religion was not important to development processes. The contributors call this assumption into question and explore the practical impacts of religion by looking at the developmental consequences of Pentecostal Christianity in Africa, and by contrasting Pentecostal and secular models of change.

Autoren-Profil

JEAN COMAROFF is Bernard E. and Ellen C. Sunny Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago, USA
DENA FREEMAN is Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology, University College, London, UK PAIVI HASU is Adjunct Professor at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland
BEN JONES is Lecturer in the School of International Development at the University of East Anglia, UK
DAMARIS PARSITAU is Lecturer in African Christianities at Egerton University, Kenya CHARLES PIOT is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University, USA
JAMES H. SMITH is Associate Professor of Socio-Cultural Anthropology at the University of California, Davis, USA
RIJK VAN DIJK is an anthropologist working at the African Studies Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands