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Decolonizing Development and Religion

Theoretical Frameworks, Case Studies, and Theological Models

Joerg Rieger, Sanjana Das
Decolonizing Development and Religion

Decolonizing Development and Religion

Theoretical Frameworks, Case Studies, and Theological Models

Joerg Rieger, Sanjana Das

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Publisher: SCM Press
ISBN: 9780334066316
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 30/05/2025
Width: 15.6 cm
Height: 23.4 cm
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Discourses of development have been part of the modern world, for good or for ill. In the past, various colonialisms have been justified by the notion of development, but so have efforts to provide alternatives to colonization. In this volume, present-day development and decolonial discourses are engaged together from a plurality of perspectives from various continents around the globe. In the chapters that follow, the work of junior and senior scholars enters into conversation around specific communities that exist in the tensions of traditional and capitalist economies and religions, providing models of flourishing that produce alternatives to the prevalent neoliberal models of development that are wedded to neocolonial economic, political, and religious structures. 

Part of a new trilogy of volumes co-published with the Council for World Mission's DARE (Discernment And Radical Engagement) programme.

Contributors vii Preface xi Jooseop Keum Introduction: Decolonizing Development and Religion for Good xiii Joerg Rieger (United States and Germany) Part 1: Frameworks 1 Cooperatives and Decolonization: Exploring a Key Source of Economic Stability, Solidarity and Survival 3 Jamin Andreas Hübner (United States) 2 Decolonizing Knowledge Systems in Development and Theology 28 Sanjana Das (India and Singapore) Part 2: Case Studies 3 The Liberative Potentials of Philippine Itneg Women’s Ministry in Reconstructing a Theology of Development 57 Ma. Glovedi Joy L. Bigornia (Philippines) 4 MotugG’afa: Timely Reflections on Colonial Developments in the Pacific 74 Faafetai Aiava (Fiji) 5 De-imperializing ‘Development as Happiness’ by Re-Appropriating Atepzung: A Southeast Asian Massif Experience 87 Shiluinla Jamir (India) 6 The Resilience of Indigenous Women in the Midst of Development 103 Moakumla Longkumer (India) Part 3: Theological Models 7 ‘Sola’ Mining, ‘Sola’ Profit, ‘Sola’ Development Gloria: Extractivist Theology and Heretical Spiritualities 127 Nancy Cardoso (Brazil) (translated by Francis McDonagh) 8 The Brazilian Favelas: Territories that Challenges Us to Think about the Meaning of Liberation in Contemporary Latin American Neoliberal Society 144 Priscila Silva (Brazil) 9 Land, Labour and Liberation: Conversion, Theosis and Material Pneumatology in the Capitalocene 158 Luke Larner (Great Britain) Part 4: Specific Challenges 10 Postcolonial Reparation: Reading Fanon with Aquinas for Postcolonial Nations’ New Humanity 185 Hendrawan Wijoyo (United States and Indonesia) 11 Freedom of Religion and Expression of Faith for Incarcerated LGBTI+ People in Brazil 211 Heloisa Melino and Fernando Lannes Fernandes (Brazil) 12 Can the Subaltern Code?: AI Ethics and Liberation Theology 229 Matthew Elmore (United States)

Joerg Rieger, Sanjana Das

Joerg Rieger is the founding director of the Wendland-Cook Program in Religion and Justice at Vanderbilt Divinity School and Distinguished Professor of Theology at Vanderbilt University. Sanjana Das is an independent scholar with the World Council for Mission and development practitioner who promotes solutions to work towards a just society which affirms the dignity and personhood of women, children and communities on the margins.