Religion
Subtitle: help or hindrance to development?
By: edited by Kenneth Mtata
Contributors: Lutheran World Federation; Mission EineWelt
Series: Lutheran World Federation documentation -- 58/2013; LWF documentation -- no. 58.
Publisher: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Leipzig
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9783374037728
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Doctrines; Protestantism; Social aspects; Religious aspects; Capitalism; Religion; Congresses; Christianity; Lutheran Church
Notes: The essays included in this book were first presented at an international conference on religion and development, organized and hosted by the Lutheran World Federation and Mission EineWelt in Neuendettelsau, Germany, 21-25 October 2012.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface / Martin Junge; title: Introduction / Kenneth Mtata; title: Opening remarks / Eberhard Hitzler; title: Sermon / Michael Martin; title: Religion and development: friends or foes? / Kenneth Mtata; title: What aspects of Lutheran theology contribute to a holistic development model? : or, is there something to be looked at? / Vitor Westhelle; title: Trajectories into the world: concepts of "development" in contemporary African Pentecostal Christianity / Andreas Heuser; title: How development ethos emerges and is engrained and sustained in contact with local culture and religion / Karel Th. August; title: Religion, development and mission / Michael Biehl; title: Capitalism as religion : when does the cycle end? / Muriel Orevillo-Montenegro; title: State, religion and development in China / Theresa Carino; title: Multireligious context and development / Samuel Ngun Ling; title: Religion, conflict and development in a multireligious context / Johnson Mbillah; title: The future role of the church in development cooperation / Madipoane Masenya (ngwan'aMphahlele); title: Case study I : Religion and development: the praxis of the Lutheran Costarican Church / Carlos Bonilla; title: Case study II : The transformation of society: the contribution of women to peace / Lindora Howard-Diawara; title: Case study III : Religion and peace : reflections on the Ecumenical Church leaders in Zimbabwe's peace project / Ambrose Moyo; title: Challenges for religion and development in the ACT Alliance / Rebecca Larson; title: Faith-based organizations and their distinct assets / Kjell Nordstokke; title: The reconfiguration of faith-based organizations in Germany: implications for development / Claudia Warning.