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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.]