Development and Politics from Below: Exploring Religious Spaces in the African State

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction: Development and Politics from Below: New Conceptual Interpretations....Pages 1-19
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
Development and Invisible Worlds....Pages 23-39
The Mbuliuli Principle: What is in a Name?....Pages 40-55
Muslim Shrines in Cape Town: Religion and Post-Apartheid Public Spheres....Pages 56-73
Remaking Society from Within: Extraversion and the Social Forms of Female Muslim Activism in Urban Mali....Pages 74-96
Front Matter....Pages 97-97
 Da‘wa and Politics in West Africa: Muslim Jama‘at and Non-Governmental Organizations in Ghana, Sierre Leone and The Gambia....Pages 99-130
Faith-based Organizations, the State and Politics in Tanzania....Pages 131-151
Burying Life: Pentecostal Religion and Development in Urban Mozambique....Pages 152-171
Front Matter....Pages 173-173
Health and the Uses of Religion: Recovering the Political Proper?....Pages 175-196
Marshalling the Powers: The Challenge of Everyday Religion for Development....Pages 197-217
Sacred Struggles: The World Council of Churches and the HIV Epidemic in Africa....Pages 218-239
Conclusion: Reflections on Modernization without Secularization....Pages 240-251
Back Matter....Pages 252-257