2134/14092 Mary E. Liao Mary E. Liao Spirituality and development discourses in Namibia Loughborough University 2014 Spirituality and development Post-modern consciousness Global spirituality Spiritual values Cultural relativism Earth Sciences not elsewhere classified 2014-02-05 14:02:03 Thesis https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/thesis/Spirituality_and_development_discourses_in_Namibia/9487337 The overall goal of this thesis is to examine the newly emerging ideas and practices of spirituality and development. Spirituality and development will be discussed within the broader discourses of alternative development critiques. The issues that arise in the attempts to translate ideas of spirituality and development into practice are examined. The theoretical underpinnings of spirituality and development are analyzed, based on a literature review of spiritual, anti-colonial, post-colonial, feminist, environmental, radical economic, eco-feminist, ecumenical, geographical and anthropological critiques of development. The thesis then explores the discourses of spirituality and development within three Northern donor agencies; the International Development and Research Centre (IDRC), the World Bank and the World Council of Churches (WCC). [CONTINUES.]