On Having Faith in the MDGs: A Response to Katherine Marshall (abstract)
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- Sur la foi dans les Objectifs du Millénaire : réponse à Katherine Marshall [fr]
Abstract
Katherine Marshall’s thorough and thoughtful critique of my chapter raises a number of important objections. However, it appears that among her most important criticisms is that I didn’t write a different chapter. To clarify, my chapter was not a general survey of the literature on ‘religion and development’ (which has already been admirably carried out by Jones and Peterson, whom I cited). It was also not an attempt to present a systematic analysis of Marshall’s substantial corpus and its evolution over time. Nor, indeed, was it intended to be a comprehensive and detailed proposal as to where to go from here. These are all useful and valuable tasks – some are arguably more pressing than the argument I provided – but none were the goals of the chapter. (…)
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World Bank, religion, secularism, economic | development history, development theories, international cooperation, Millennium Development GoalsEditors' notes
Paperback reference : Fountain, P. (2013) "On Having Faith in the MDGs: A Response to Katherine Marshall", in International Development Policy: Religion and Development, No.4, Geneva: Graduate Institute Publications, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 41-56
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Philip Fountain, “On Having Faith in the MDGs: A Response to Katherine Marshall (abstract)”, International Development Policy | Revue internationale de politique de développement, 4 | 2013, 41-56.
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Philip Fountain, “On Having Faith in the MDGs: A Response to Katherine Marshall (abstract)”, International Development Policy | Revue internationale de politique de développement [Online], 4 | 2013, Online since 14 February 2013, connection on 14 September 2024. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/poldev/1375; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/poldev.1375
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