Tomalin, E orcid.org/0000-0001-7722-1192 (2021) Religions and development: a paradigm shift or business as usual? Religion, 51 (1). pp. 105-124. ISSN 0048-721X
Abstract
There has been a ‘turn to religion’ by global development actors over the past couple of decades. This article examines the extent to which this is evidence of a paradigm shift or simply business as usual. The first part of the article will examine the nature of this ‘turn to religion’, including how it has been debated and conceptualized within academic research. I examine the usefulness of the concept of ‘religious engineering’ (the focus of this thematic issue) as a way of helping us broaden approaches to the ‘religion-development nexus’ beyond a focus on the relationship between formal international FBOs and secular global development institutions. The second part of the article develops the concept of ‘religious engineering’ with reference to the work of Pierre Bourdieu. I argue that the concepts of habitus, field and capital help de-centre the focus of attention from global development institutions to other fields of religion-development intersection.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an author produced version of an article published in Religion. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Religion, development, faith-based organization, Pierre Bourdieu, post-secular, desecularisation |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science (Leeds) > Theology and Religious Studies (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 20 May 2020 14:41 |
Last Modified: | 12 Jul 2022 08:58 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/0048721X.2020.1792055 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:160904 |