Re-Strategising Mission (and Development) Intervention into Africa to Avoid Corruption, the Prosperity Gospel and Missionary Ignorance

The notion that Western ways are superior can be used to justify subsidising advocacy to the poor in Africa who might otherwise reject those ways out of ignorance. This ignores differences in culture that can trip up Western logic in Africa. When generosity is the reason to subsidise Western interve...

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Main Author: Harries, Jim 1964- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage 2021
In: Transformation
Year: 2021, Volume: 38, Issue: 4, Pages: 359-372
IxTheo Classification:CH Christianity and Society
KBN Sub-Saharan Africa
NCE Business ethics
RJ Mission; missiology
Further subjects:B Corruption
B money and wealth
B Vulnerable Mission
B Africa
B Dependency
B westerners in mission
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