Mind, Heart and Soul in the Fight Against Poverty
The world of religion has been unacknowledged and often unseen by many development practitioners. The areas of common concern and activity, though, are numerous and have great importance in the global effort to fight poverty. This book explores the...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC: World Bank
2013
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/01/5067935/mind-heart-soul-fight-against-poverty http://hdl.handle.net/10986/14927 |
| Summary: | The world of religion has been
unacknowledged and often unseen by many development
practitioners. The areas of common concern and activity,
though, are numerous and have great importance in the global
effort to fight poverty. This book explores the diversity of
collaboration between faith institutions and development
agencies. ranging from community level interventions in
support of excluded populations, work on education, health,
and HIV/AIDS, restoring communities after conflicts, and
global efforts to bring greater clarity and meaning to
challenges such as poor country debt, labor and the struggle
against poverty. What is emerging is a set of new
partnerships that are founded on common concerns for the
welfare of poor communities and the global cause of social
justice. The need for broader and clearer insight, and for
creative efforts to see and understand the whole, emerge as
fundamental lessons of recent decades of development
experience. This report seeks to delve more deeply into
these lessons, stressing the centrality of faith in the
human experience. |
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