Development was founded on the belief that religion was not important to development processes. The contributors call this assumption into question and explore the practical impacts of religion by looking at the developmental consequences of Pentecostal Christianity in Africa, and by contrasting Pentecostal and secular models of change.

Autorentext
JEAN COMAROFF is Bernard E. and Ellen C. Sunny Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago, USA 
DENA FREEMAN is Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology, University College, London, UK PAIVI HASU is Adjunct Professor at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland 
BEN JONES is Lecturer in the School of International Development at the University of East Anglia, UK 
DAMARIS PARSITAU is Lecturer in African Christianities at Egerton University, Kenya CHARLES PIOT is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University, USA 
JAMES H. SMITH is Associate Professor of Socio-Cultural Anthropology at the University of California, Davis, USA 
RIJK VAN DIJK is an anthropologist working at the African Studies Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands

Inhalt
The Pentecostal Ethic and the Spirit of Development; D.Freeman PART I: PENTECOSTALISM AND THE NEOLIBERAL TURN Pentecostalism, Populism and the New Politics of Affect; J.Comaroff Prosperity Gospels and Enchanted Worldviews: Two Responses to Socio-Economic Transformations in Tanzanian Pentecostal Christianity; P.Hasu Pentecostalism and Post-Development: Pentecostal Development Ideologies in Ghanaian Migrant Communities; R.van Dijk PART II: CHURCHES AND NGOS: DIFFERENT ROUTES OF SALVATION Pentecostal and Development Imaginaries in West Africa; C.Piot Saving Development: Secular NGOs, the Pentecostal Revolution, and the Search for a Purified Political Space in the Taita Hills, Kenya; J.Smith Development and the Rural Entrepreneur: Pentecostals, NGOs and the Market in the Gamo Highlands, Ethiopia; D.Freeman Pentecostalism, Development NGOs and Meaning in Eastern Uganda; B.Jones Agents of Gendered Change: Empowerment, Salvation and Gendered Transformation in Urban Kenya; D.Parsitau