Faith and Foreign Aid: How the World Bank Got Religion, and Why it Matters
Scott Thomas Wednesday, 1 September 2004
However it be defined, development is a normative experience; it involves, for those who propose it as for those to whom it is proposed, central value choices about the meaning of life. — Denis Goulet
After September 11, no one argues with the assertion that religion matters in international affairs. Radical Islam, religious conflict in failed or weak states, and religiously-motivated terrorism have all grabbed the headlines. But there are other important aspects of the global resurgence of religion. The way culture, religion, and spirituality have become part of the policy discourse on the meaning of development is one of the most ignored aspects of this resurgence.
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