Governmental donor agencies and faith-based organizations

International Review of the Red Cross

Volumn 87, Issue 858, 2005, Pages 367-373

  Holenstein, Anne Marie ^a  

^a SWISS AGENCY FOR DEVELOPMENT AND COOPERATION   (Switzerland)

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EID: 85005859614     PISSN: 18163831     EISSN: 16075889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1816383100181391     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. Kurt Alan VerBeek, “Spirituality: A development taboo”, Development in Practice, Vol. 10, No. 1, February 2000.
2. Katherine Marshall and Lucy Keough, Mind, Heart, and Soul in the Fight against Poverty, The World Bank, 2004, Chapter 1.
3. Thierry Verhelst with Wendy Tyndale, “Cultures, spirituality, and development,” in Deborah Eade (ed.), Development and Culture, Oxfam, GB, 2002, p. 13.
4. The project is conducted by Anne-Marie Holenstein, consultant. For the results in phases 1 and 2, see her study entitled Role and Significance of Religion and Spirituality in Development Co-operation: A Reflection and Working Paper. This publication is available in print in English, French (June 2005), German and Spanish from info@deza.admin.ch> (last visited 27 June 2005) and as a pdf-file on the SDC's website (last visited 27 June 2005).
5. Development is: for the Baha'is:”… laying the foundations for a new social order that can cultivate the limitless potentialities latent in human consciousness” (ICOREC, 1998)
6. for the Hindus: “ a process of enabling a sustainable livelihood in harmony with natural resources, as a foundation for spiritual progress”; for the Taoists: “harmony or a right balance must be the key ingredient of any developmental goals, the balance between rich and poor, and between human society and the whole universe.” From: Astrid Sriickelberger, “The neglected reality of development: New trends and features in the international development debate”, paper presented at a workshop held by the SDC/NGO Division, Bern, 9 October 2002.
7. Compare Hans-Michael Haussig, Der Religionsbegriff in den Religionen, Philo, Berlin and Mainz 1999, pp. 4 and 18.
8. From: “Religion: eine europaisch-christliche Erfindung?” Beiträge eines Symposiums am Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, Haussig et al. (eds.), Berlin 2003, p. 14.
9. Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom, Oxford University Press 1999, p. 31.