These articles explore the complex links between social and economic development and religious and spiritual belief and assess the cost to development of ignoring these links.

Religion and spirituality are central to the lives of women and men across the world, yet mainstream development policy and practice rarley take account of this fact. This collection of articles explores the complex links between social and economic development and religious and spiritual belief, and assesses the cost to development of ignoring these links. Writers of many faiths, and those with none, explore the scope for promoting women's rights and needs offered by religious belief and practice, and analyse feminist responses to fundamentalist regimes which use religious doctrine to justify women's oppression.

Editorial
Reconciling Islam and feminism
Christianity, development, and women's liberation
Conflict and compliance: Christianity and the occult in horticultural exporting
No time to worship the serpent deities: Women, economic change, and religion in north-wester Nepal
Gender relations, 'Hindu' nationalism, and NGO responses in India
Religion, male violence, and the control of women: Pakistani Muslim men in Bradford, UK
A double-edged sword: Challenging women's oppression within Muslim society in Northern Nigeria
Gender and development from a Christian perspective: Experience from World Vision
Islam and development: Opportunities and constraints for Somali women
'The way to do is to be': Exploring the interface between values and research
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