Faith in Forms: Civil Society Evangelism and Development in Tanzania
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2012
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Taylor and Francis
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This paper examines the position and role of religious organisations within a wider range of civil society organisations (CSOs) in two districts in Tanzania. We argue that where development agendas are externally generated and civil society is driven by supply-side factors, religious organisations are not very different from other CSOs. Whether faith adherence and religious values and beliefs lead to different kinds of development outcomes is open to question, partly because most Tanzanians claim some kind of religious motivation and partly because there are probably very few institutional settings in which religious attitudes do not have some kind of influence.
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Green, M., Mercer, C. and Mesaki, S., 2012. Faith in forms: civil society evangelism and development in Tanzania. Development in Practice, 22(5-6), pp.721-734.