The development of religion, the religion of development / edited by Ananta Kumar Giri, Anton van Harskamp, Oscar Salemink

Notes bibliogr.

Does the end of development revitalise history? / Rüdiger Korff & Heiko Schrader -- In search of a new paradigm : development interventionism from a human dignity perspective / Bas de Gaay Fortman -- The perils of exponential growth : how interest rates and indebtedness can lead to financial instability / W.G. Wolters -- Development aid : a new crisis? / Rosalia Sciortino -- The "hope-generating machine" and the positionality of the anthropologist / Monique Nuijten -- Continuity and change in evaluation practice : from intentions to results / Pim Verhallen -- Evaluating the fundamentalism of evaluation / Rob D. van den Berg -- Social analysis as product development : anthropologists at work in the World Bank / David Mosse -- A moral critique of fieldwork / Wiebe Nauta -- Religion and development / Govert J. Buijs -- Self-development, inclusion of the other and planetary realisations / Ananta Kumar Giri -- Development cooperation as quasi-religious conversion / Oscar Salemink -- Converting pastoralists : reflections on missionary work and development in southern Ethiopia / J. Abbink -- "Samen op weg?", travelling together? : religious reform and female empowerment in northern Orissa / Alan Rew -- Religious conversions in central Java : struggling for space in two local communities / Haryani Saptaningtyas & Pradjarta Dirdjosanjoto -- The Easter "Pajatan" celebration : identity differences and efforts to restore harmony / Singgih Nugroho & Nico L. Kana -- Values and norms : an attempt to simplify the debate / William Erath -- Mass graves, stagnating identification, and war violence in rural Bosnia-Herzegovina / Mart Bax