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Acting on Faith: Religious Development Organizations in Northwest Argentina - Couverture rigide

Occhipinti, Laurie A.

 
9780739111109: Acting on Faith: Religious Development Organizations in Northwest Argentina
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0739111108 ISBN 13 : 9780739111109
Editeur : Lexington Books, 2005

Synopsis

Acting on Faith deftly examines the role of religious discourse in processes of economic development by exploring a case study based on twelve months of intensive qualitative research examining the role of small, Catholic non-government organizations (NGOs) in indigenous communities in northwest Argentina. The difficulty facing the communities and their associated NGOs is how to create conditions that ameliorate poverty, without undermining cultural values. The substantial technical, ecological, and economic obstacles to development in these remote regions compound this change. This book moves beyond a perspective that privileges either the symbolic aspect of religion or the material forces of political economy, and instead sees economic and symbolic systems as mutually conditioning processes of meaning and power. Acting on Faith is an important work for scholars in anthropology and sociology, as well as practitioners in the field of development.

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À propos de l'auteur

Laurie A. Occhipinti is assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology, Geography, and Earth Science at Clarion University.

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Éditeur
Lexington Books
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0739111108
ISBN 13 
9780739111109
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
242
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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