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Restoring Dignity in Rural and Urban Madagascar

On How Religion Creates New Life-stories

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Restoring Dignity in Rural and Urban Madagascar

On How Religion Creates New Life-stories

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Christian churches across the world such as the Lutheran church in Madagascar have long been engaged in what we would today term «development». The church has been deeply involved in humanitarian assistance and development work, especially in the areas of education and health. Restoring Dignity in Rural and Urban Madagascar analyzes this phenomenon and presents stories of human dignity in the lives of the people in this society, a society that survives in a context of vulnerability, both social and economic. The stories show how everyday life is lived despite unfulfilled needs and when decent living conditions are but a dream. The book is primarily concerned with a commitment to Christianity in a changing society and focuses on church members' experiences of the development work of the Lutheran church in their everyday lives. Christian faith and Christian values such as human dignity, ethics, and belonging represent added values to these people and express value systems that are tied to ethical reflection and moral action. For those who choose to participate in the church's development work and spiritual activity, therefore, new ethical standards and norms are created. This approach challenges the traditional emphasis on cultural continuity thinking to explain the sudden change in values that people say that they have experienced.
The book will be essential assigned reading in university courses in development studies, anthropology, and missiology.

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Publisher

Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers

Year

2014

ISBN

9781453912201

Edition

Topic

Theology & Religion

Subtopic

Systematic Theology & Ethics

Cover
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Chapter 1. Introduction – A Life-Long Relationship
Chapter 2. The Resurgence of Religion
Chapter 3. The Setting
Chapter 4. Bara Becoming Malagasy: A Story of Change in Southwestern Madagascar
Chapter 5. Life Stories on Restoring Human Dignity
Chapter 6. Urban Citizens in Search of a Living: A Story of Changes in and Around Antsirabe
Chapter 7. Life Stories About Finding New Foundations
Chapter 8. Restoring Dignity
Notes
Bibliography
Index