Over the past 5 or so years there has been a noticeable shift within development policy, practice and research to include religion as a relevant factor. While in practice religious traditions have contributed much to various sorts of 'development' work, until very recently this has tended to be ignored by major international development players. This book presents, explains and critically evaluates different sorts of literature from a range of disciplines that are relevant to thinking about the relationships between religions and development.

Over the past 5 or so years there has been a noticeable shift within development policy, practice and research to include religion as a relevant factor. While in practice religious traditions have contributed much to various sorts of 'development' work, until very recently this has tended to be ignored by major international development players. This book presents, explains and critically evaluates different sorts of literature from a range of disciplines that are relevant to thinking about the relationships between religions and development.