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Discourses of development have been part of the modern world, for good
or for ill. In the past, various colonialisms have been justified by the
notion of development, but so have efforts to provide alternatives to
colonization.
In this volume, present-day development and decolonial discourses are
engaged together from a plurality of perspectives from various
continents around the globe. In the chapters that follow, the work of
junior and senior scholars enters into conversation around specific
communities that exist in the tensions of traditional and capitalist
economies and religions, providing models of flourishing that produce
alternatives to the prevalent neoliberal models of development that are
wedded to neocolonial economic, political, and religious structures.
Part of a new series of volumes co-published with the Council for World
Mission’s DARE (Discernment And Radical Engagement) programme.
Joerg Rieger is the founding director of the
Wendland-Cook Program in Religion and Justice at Vanderbilt Divinity
School and Distinguished Professor of Theology at Vanderbilt University.
Sanjana Das is an independent researcher,
biblical scholar, feminist theologian and development practitioner who
promotes solutions to work towards a just society which affirms the
dignity and personhood of women, children and communities on the
margins.