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by Erica Bornstein
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The Spirit of Development: Protestant NGOs, Morality, and Economics in Zimbabwe Summary
| This book is an ethnographic account of the work of transnational, Christian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Zimbabwe. Religious NGOs are one of the voices of pluralism in southern Africa, sometimes challenging the state and at others collaborating with it. The tensions of such engagement are key to understanding the successes and failures of transnational, humanitarian endeavors to foster democratic governance in Zimbabwe. While much scholarship has been focused, theoretically, on the role of NGOs in democratization in Africa regarding international foreign policy, few studies offer empirically grounded insights into how transnational NGOs operate. Even fewer factor in the role of religious discourse in their analysis. The Spirit of Development addresses, ethnographically, how an American discourse of Christian humanitarianism transforms, and is transformed by, local settings. The book builds on scholarship on Christian missionaries in Africa to interrogate the religious dimensions of economic change. Situated in Zimbabwe of the late 1990s, the project engages with scholarship on a range of intersecting topics, including: development studies, the politics of transnational foreign aid, the politics of neoliberal economic discourse, recent debates on civil societies and states in Africa, the global politics of religion, and classical anthropological research on religious conversion. In the late 1990s, religious NGOs were on the forefront of reconfiguring humanitarian aid in Africa - entering where the welfare programs of African states were unable to provide basic services for citizens. Today, religious NGOs occupy a peculiar structural and ideological position in contemporary Africa, working in collaboration with African states and simultaneously providing moral critique. |
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