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Community Development Journal Advance Access originally published online on February 27, 2008
Community Development Journal 2008 43(2):254-256; doi:10.1093/cdj/bsn004
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Visions of development: faith-based initiatives

Randy Stoecker, Associate Professor

Center for Community and Economic Development, 610 Langdon Street, 3rd Floor, Madison, WI 53703 And Department of Rural Sociology, 350 Agricultural Hall, 1450 Linden Drive, Madison, Wisconsin, 53706

E-mail: rstoecker@wisc.edu

Edited by Wendy R. Tyndale, Aldershot, Hampshire, UK: Ashgate. 2006. 978-0-7546-5623-4. £45.00

The first 10% of the full text of this article appears below.

As someone who fears all religions, reviewing a book on faith-based development is a particular challenge for me. I am among those whom the editor of this book charges with seeing religion ‘as part of the problem rather than as part of the solution.’ (p. 167). So I ventured into this book with trepidation.

My more basic fears were laid to rest, however. Among the stories told from across the developing world, and from religions such as Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Mayan, the Bahá'í faith, and various versions of animism, is a great deal of honesty. The stories . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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