Religion and Development

Contents: Päivi Hasu/Tomas Sundnes Drønen: Introduction: Religion and Development - Nordic Perspectives on Involvement in Africa - Gerrie ter Haar: Poverty and Prosperity in Africa - Tomas Sundnes Drønen: Globalization, Religion and Development: Perspectives from Africa - Magne Supphellen: Effects of Religious Attitudes on the Self-Determination of Small-Scale Entrepreneurs in the Slum Areas of Nairobi - Mika Vähäkangas: Our Mission: Development. Comparative Perspectives on Development - David Livingstone and Finland's Development Policy Programme 2012 - Karen Lauterbach: Spiritual Gifts and Relations of Exchange among Congolese in Kampala, Uganda - Anne Kubai: Reinventing «Tradition»: Social Reconstruction and Development in Post-genocide Rwanda - Ville Päivänsalo: Fragile Health Justice: Cooperation with Faith Organizations - Kjetil Fretheim: Transformative Masculinity: Religion, Development and Gender in an Ecumenical Context - Auli Vähäkangas: Transforming Masculinities: Male Care Volunteers in Tanzania - Marianne Skjortnes: Religion and Development: A Gender Perspective on the Ambiguous Role of the Churches - Nikolai Hegertun: Religion and Development: Lessons from Three Donor Countries.

Tomas Sundnes Drønen received his PhD from the School of Mission and Theology in Stavanger, Norway, where he is Professor of Global Studies and Religion. He has authored many publications on globalization, intercultural communication, and religious change in Africa, including Communication and Conversion in Northern Cameroon (2009) and Pentecostalism, Globalisation, and Islam in Northern Cameroon (2013).