Religion and Development in Africa

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WCC) Ecumenical HIV & AIDS Initiatives and Advocacy (EHAIA) for ongoing reflections on religion and development. The editors acknowledge the commitment of the contributors who persevered to see the project to its logical conclusion. We are grateful to Prof. Dr. Joachim Kügler for providing a conducive environment and platform at the University of Bamberg for debating the role the Bible and religion play in Africa. Support from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation enabled the editors to work on the project during research stays in Germany and is hereby saluted. We dedicate this volume to the memory of our late colleague Prof Dr Nisbert Taringa, a founding co-editor and important author of the BiAS series including the subseries ERA. With his volume Towards an African-Christian Environmental Ethic (BiAS 13), he was a pioneer to bring the topic of religion, ecology and development into our series. We will always be grateful for his support and all his creative contributions! Alkire, Sabine. 2010. "Human Development, Definitions, Critiques, and Related Concepts: Background Paper for the 2010 Human Development Report," OPHI Working Paper No. 36,