Religion and the Politics of Development  /
Fountain, P.,editor.
Bush, R.,editor.
Feener, M.,editor.
This volume brings emerging research on religion and development into conversation with politics. Deploying innovative conceptual frameworks, and drawing on empirical research from across contemporary Asia, this collection makes an incisive contribution to the analysis of aid and development processes.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- 1.  Religion and the Politics of Development -- 2. The Purification, Sacralisation, and Instrumentalisation of Development -- 3. Gender, Development, and the "De-privatisation" of Religion: Reframing Feminism and Religion in Asia -- 4.  Islamic Activism and Palliative Care: An Analysis from Kerala, India -- 5.  Buddhist Cosmopolitan Ethics and Transnational Secular Humanitarianism in Sri Lanka -- 6. Buddhist and Protestant Philanthropies in Contemporary Southeast China: Negotiating the "Grey Zone" -- 7.  Patronage, Welfare Provisions, and State-Society Relations: Lessons from Muslim-Dominant Regimes in Southeast Asia (Indonesia an -- 8.  Between Ideology and International Politics: The Dynamics and Transformation of a Transnational Islamic Charity -- 9.  Remaking the Russian State from the East: The Role of Asian Christians as Civic Activists -- 10. The Politics of Nonreligious Aid: A Japanese Environmental Ethic in Myanmar.
This volume brings emerging research on religion and development into conversation with politics. Deploying innovative conceptual frameworks, and drawing on empirical research from across contemporary Asia, this collection makes an incisive contribution to the analysis of aid and development processes.
Religion and state