Marie-Luise Frost erforscht die Rolle religiöser Gemeinschaften als Akteure der nachhaltigen Entwicklung und untersucht dabei die Schnittstelle zwischen kosmologischen Weltbildern und lokalen Gemeinschaftspraktiken. Sie analysiert, wie religiöse Überzeugungen und Institutionen Transformationsprozesse hin zu Nachhaltigkeit prägen und gestalten. Für Unternehmen und öffentliche Institutionen relevant ist dabei die Erkenntnis, dass religiöse Netzwerke und Wertesysteme erhebliche Hebel für die Umsetzung von Nachhaltigkeitszielen darstellen — insbesondere in Kontexten, wo Glaubensgemeinschaften starken gesellschaftlichen Einfluss haben. Ihre Arbeiten adressieren damit Fragen der Governance und des Wissenstransfers zwischen wissenschaftlichen Nachhaltigkeitszielen und gelebten Praktiken in religiös geprägten Gesellschaften.
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Marie-Luise Frost
HU-FIS-Profil ↗This book investigates the substantial and growing contribution which African Independent and Pentecostal Churches are making to sustainable development in all its manifold forms. Moreover, this volume seeks to elucidate how these churches reshape the very notion of sustainable development and contribute to the decolonisation of development. Fostering both overarching and comparative perspectives, the book includes chapters on West Africa (Nigeria, Ghana, and Burkina Faso) and Southern Africa (Zimbabwe and South Africa). It aims to open up a subfield focused on African Initiated Christianity within the religion and development discourse, substantially broadening the scope of the existing literature. Written predominantly by scholars from the African continent, the chapters in this volume illuminate potentials and perspectives of African Initiated Christianity, combining theoretical contributions, essays by renowned church leaders, and case studies focusing on particular churches or regional contexts. While the contributions in this book focus on the African continent, the notion of development underlying the concept of the volume is deliberately wide and multidimensional, covering economic, social, ecological, political, and cultural dimensions. Therefore, the book will be useful for the community of scholars interested in religion and development as well as researchers within African studies, anthropology, development studies, political science, religious studies, sociology of religion, and theology. It will also be a key resource for development policymakers and practitioners.
HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies · DOI
African Initiated Churches (AICs) are not yet recognised as relevant actors of community development interventions. While it has been acknowledged that many of them provide coping mechanisms in adverse environments, support in social transformation and social capital, little information is available on their role as development actors. In this article, we evaluate the potential of AICs as partners of international development agencies for community development. We draw on interviews and focus group discussions with leaders of various AICs conducted in South Africa in February and March 2016. In particular, we examine the churches’ understanding of development, their view on the separation of spiritual and development activities and their priorities. Moreover, we outline the development activities which they are currently engaged in and analyse the structures they have in place to do so. Our findings indicate that AICs are increasingly active in community development and offer various entry points for possible cooperation.
Religion and Development · DOI
Abstract This article introduces Religion & Development as a new transdisciplinary journal focusing on the nexus between religion and development. It outlines the motivation for establishing the new periodical along three central themes: the move towards sustainable development as dominant development paradigm; the reinvigoration of the post-development debate; and the emerging academic, policy and practice field of religion and development. The discussion proceeds to highlight the envisaged task of the journal as well as its transdisciplinary and collaborative span. Moreover, it delineates Religion & Development ’s core editorial policies, before setting the scene for the contributions of the journal’s first issue.