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Spirituality and development discourses in Namibia

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posted on 2014-02-05, 14:02 authored by Mary E. Liao
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.]

History

Department

  • Geography and Environment

Publisher

Loughborough University of Technology

Rights holder

© Mary E. Liao

Publication date

2000

Notes

A Doctoral Thesis. Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy of Loughborough University of Technology.

EThOS Persistent ID

uk.bl.ethos.339923

Language

  • en

Supervisor(s)

Morag Bell

Qualification name

  • PhD

Qualification level

  • Doctoral