THE DISCOURSE ON RELIGION IN NOWADAYS STUDIES ON DEVELOPMENT
THE DISCOURSE ON RELIGION IN NOWADAYS STUDIES ON DEVELOPMENT

Summary/Abstract: The goal of this study is to show the difficult issues generated by the recent renewal of the interest for religion within the studies on development. Either if one refers to the difficulty of defining religion and development, or if the adjacent issues are more complex than one could believe (the sub-divisions of development, the idea of secularization and its critiques, the relation between fundamentalism and violence, the difficulties of the categorial pair sacredprofane, the relation of religion with modernity etc.), the burst of preoccupations towards the examination of the role of religion within development is, at first, the result of the evolution of some adjacent disciplines (especially anthropology and sociology of religion), but also the mark of a continuous presence of religion within the academic world and that of the agents of change.

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