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Religion And Development

Religion is no panacea, but aspects of it can complement as well as motivate development. It can also obstruct or undermine. The literature is likewise many-headed and multilingual. This article provides a detailed attempt to analyse the relationship between religion and development in all its complexity. (Sabina Alkire, The Elgar Companion to Development and Economics, 2004)

http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~acgei/Publications/Akire/Religion%20and%20Development%2010-251.pdf

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Religion and Development - Portal Site

The Knowledge Centre Religion and Development (R&D) has been founded by five participating organisations that have set as a shared goal the dissemination of the role of religion for sustainable development, international co-operation and civil society building. Religion is seen to encourage reflection on the values that are essential for personal and social development and are thus the foundation of the development of a society. The Knowledge Centre R&D is an instrument to elaborate on, and communicate a shared goal.

http://www.religion-and-development.nl

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Religion And Development In Africa [pdf]

This paper aims to provide a brief analysis of the role of religion in Africa's development. With the concept of human development coming into vogue, emphasizing aspects of people's lives that go beyond the economic dimension, it is important to understand human development as also including the spiritual dimension of life. The article warns of the difficulties in attempting to add religion to a list of instruments that can be used in development policy, it mentions sectors in which religion may play a positive role in development, and discusses briefly how these points may translate into specific policy ideas at different levels of government. (Ellis and ter Haar, 2004)

http://www.commissionforafrica.org/english/report/background/ellis_and_teer_haar_background.pdf

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Religion in the Philippines

This article examines aspects of religion in the Philippines relating to cultural diversity and beliefs amongst radicals and elites. It includes a graphical timeline of religion throughout Philippine history.

http://www.asianreflection.com/philippinereligion.shtml

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Rights and Religion: The Contradictions of the Catholic Church

Faith can act as both the champion and oppressor of human rights. (Terence Wood, Just Change, July 2006)

http://www.dev-zone.org/downloads/jc6terence.pdf

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Scientific and Medical Network's Articles on Religion and Philosophy

A collection of articles on such topics as "Science and Religion as Ways of Knowing" and "Science and Wisdom - Compassion". The Scientific and Medical Network is an informal international group consisting of qualified scientists and doctors, together with other professionals such as psychologists, engineers, philosophers, and therapists. The Network currently has over 2000 professional members and 800 associates in 53 countries.

http://www.scimednet.org/pastarticles.htm

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Self Development, Spiritual Intellegence and Meditation

The Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University acknowledges the intrinsic goodness of all people. We teach a practical method of meditation that helps individuals understand their inner strengths and values. A worldwide family of individuals from all walks of life, we are committed to spiritual growth and personal transformation, believing them essential in creating a peaceful and just world. Acknowledging the challenges of rapid global change, we nurture the well-being of the entire human family by promoting spiritual understanding, leadership with integrity and elevated actions towards a better world.

http://www.brahmakumaris.wellington.net.nz/links.html

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Spiritual Activism

The Network of Spiritual Progressives take an inspired approach to empowering political debate. (Jordi Pigem, Just Change, July 2006)

http://www.dev-zone.org/downloads/jc6pigem.pdf

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Spiritual Activism: Articles By Robert Rabbin

Robert Rabbin, founder of Radical Sages, is a contemporary mystic, keynote speaker, workshop leader, and executive coach who is currently living in Australia. He is a pioneer of practical mysticism and a leading exponent of Silence and self-inquiry as a way of revealing our authentic being and of living in wisdom, love, and peace.

http://www.circlesoflight.com/index.html

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Spiritual Knowledge by Parmatman Shri Sat-Chit-Atman

Parmatman Shri Sat-Chit-Atman has explained spirituality and spiritual principles - non violence, truth, compassion, Brahm Mantra and about Religion. Spirituality is not possible without strict adherence to Non-violence.

http://www.preventionofdisaster.org

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Terrorism? Or, Terror, therefore ISM?

The Muslim population in Mindanao suffer increasing human rights abuses and political persecution as a consequence of the War on Terror. (Josephine O'Connor, Just Change, July 2006)

http://www.dev-zone.org/downloads/jc6oconnor.pdf

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The Church in Papua New Guinea

A look at both the positive and negative impacts of the Church on society in this Pacific nation. (Bonnie Flaws, Just Change, July 2006)

http://www.dev-zone.org/downloads/jc6bonnie.pdf

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The Church in Samoa

A critical examination of the Church's role in community development - could the Church be doing more? (Tolu Muliaina, Just Change, July 2006)

http://www.dev-zone.org/downloads/jc6tolu.pdf

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The Missionary Position

In this article the author looks at what it means for Muslim women today to be saddled with what she calls the "burden of pity" from disparate quarters. Muslim women are used as pawns by Islamist movements that make the control of women's lives a foundation of their retrograde agenda, and by Western governments that use them as an excuse for building empire. Instead, what Muslim women need is the end of their treatment as a silent, helpless mass of undifferentiated beings who think alike and face identical problems. Recognising that each country and each society has its own unique issues, and tackling the underdevelopment of many Muslim societies would go a long way toward reducing inequities. Hugely unhelpful towards this is the work of Muslim women Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Irshad Manji, which, this article argues, is "riddled with inaccuracies and generalizations". (Laila Lalami, The Nation, 16 June 2006)

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060619/lalami

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The Network of Spiritual Progressives NSP : a project of the Tikkun Community

This new movement has been recently launched to empower spiritually inspired approaches to politics. Its formal birth took place at the University of California in Berkley in July 2005, with a conference on Spiritual Activism attended by 1,380 people - Protestants, Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists and many who see themselves as "spiritual but not religious". Out of this conference this Network emerged, not linked to any political party but aimed at a deep transformation of the American political scene, with a major goal to change the current Bottom Line that guides the US politics. The Network's vision is to challenge the misuse of religion, God and spirit by the Religious Right and the many anti-religious and anti-spiritual assumptions and behaviors that have increasingly become part of the liberal culture.

http://www.spiritualprogressives.org/

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The New Evangelism

Like many Christian evangelicals and missionaries before him, Rick Warren, the son of a Southern Baptist preacher, has a grand vision. However, unlike most of his predecessors, Warren has a robust array of skills and resources. The Economist has called him "arguably the most influential pastor in America" and Forbes, the business magazine, called him a "spiritual entrepreneur" and noted that "if Warren's ministry were a business it would be compared with Dell, Google, or Starbucks in impact". In short, Rick Warren is the most prominent face of the new evangelism and he may be coming to a country near you. (Bill Berkowitz, IPS News Agency, March 8, 2006)

http://ipsnews.net/africa/nota.asp?idnews=32428

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The Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture

The Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture at Gol Park, Calcutta, is a branch of Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission, Belur Math (Worldwide headquarters of all RKM centres and sub-centres.). The Institute is well known for its philanthropic, educational and cultural activities all over the world. Based on the philosophy of the unity of human life, the Institute endeavours to make people aware of the richness of different cultures all over the world and also of the need for intercultural appreciation and understanding.

http://www.sriramakrishna.org/

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Twelve Principles

In 'Twelve Principles: Living with integrity in the twenty-first century', environmental philosopher Martin Hawes proposes ethical principles that emphasise the inseparable connection between personal development and global change. The principles are based on living with awareness, acting with integrity and understanding our interconnectedness with the whole of life. Arguing that each of us bears a share of responsibility for our communities and the wider world, the author's central message is that we CAN make a difference. Illustrating this message in practice, Twelve Principles includes personal accounts by people around the world who have achieved extraordinary changes in their own lives and communities. They include Rowenna Davis, a British schoolgirl who decorated London with 10,000 posters bearing messages about the state of the world; and Stephen Fulder, who has organised reconciliation workshops between Israelis and Palestinians in the Palestinian territories. Twelve Principles is beautifully illustrated and is an excellent resource for development education. It can be purchased from bookshops in Australia and New Zealand, and online via the Twelve Principles website.

http://www.twelveprinciples.net

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Two Islamic Soldiers

Delving into the shadows of history, this essay explores the lives of two men in Afghanistan and Pakistan for insights into religion and the war in Afghanistan. These men, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan and General Akhtar Abdur Rahman Shaheed, led two entirely different movements drawing upon religion before the Taliban. Their lives illuminate universal truths on the role of religion in nurturing peace and war.

http://www.asianreflection.com/twoislamicsoldiers.shtml

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Weaving Together and Development

Community participation coupled with traditional concepts of spirituality come together to form a model for local community development in Fiji. (Eleanor Sanderson, Just Change, July 2006)

http://www.dev-zone.org/downloads/jc6eleanor.pdf

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What Al Gore Missed: The Ecological Importance of the Cultural Commons

The recommendations for reducing consumerism that appear at the end of Al Gore's book, An Inconvenient Truth, represent how language may contribute to enclosing the cultural commons. No one can deny that Gore's list of behaviors for reducing consumerism is good common sense. But a list of what thoughtful people are already doing is no substitute for suggesting a more radical approach to reducing our dependence upon the consumerism that is contributing to global warming-which his book documents so well.

http://www.spiritualprogressives.org/article.php?story=20070124060458368

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Why I became a Buddhist Nun

Ani Tsedron was born in Poland and brought up in the Catholic tradition. She had days of questioning the meaning of life, reviewing various values, days of rebellion - the whole adolescent quest. She was a growing atheist seduced by science, 'modem' thinking, and then psychology and philosophy which was only feeding her arrogance, when she suddenly remembered her wish to become a nun from when she was 9 years old. (Ani Thubten Chodron)

http://www.buddhanet.net/ordination02.htm

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Women Living Under Muslim Laws

An interview with Casandra Balchin on the work of the WLUML network. (Yoginder Sikand, Just Change, July 2006)

http://www.dev-zone.org/downloads/jc6sikand.pdf

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