(formerly Centre for Cross Cultural Research on Women)
| WOMEN AND ‘FAITH-BASED DEVELOPMENT’: MIXING MORALITY AND MONEY | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Held at Oriel Colleage and at Queen Elizabeth House, Dept of International Development, Oxford University, September 21 – 22, 2007. The 2-day workshop was devoted to exploring the intersection between faith- based development organizations, donor recipients, and gender relations. We asked: what are the implications of faith-based development projects for the agency of women as opposed to men in a given local community? How does faith- based development work contrast with secular development in terms of the implicit or explicit gender roles accorded to donor and recipient? How is development work related to religious activism and what implications does this have for local, gendered power hierarchies? How do local community-based projects’ gender agendas relate to those of the state? What are the gender implications of transnational development projects within specific religious traditions? To enable in-depth exploration of some of the above questions in greater depth, we convened four panels; the convenors (all members of IGS)were (in order of programme sequence) Dr Paula Heinonen (Young lives and faith-based development); Dr Maria Jaschok (Indigenising Religions, Postcolonial Sentiment and Women Driving Alternative Development); Dr Josephine Reynell (Gender, Development and Trans-national Religious Communities); and Dr Deborah Bryceson (Faith-Based Donor Assistance for AIDS-affected Communities). Professor Ursula King (Bristol University) gave the workshop address and Professor Nancy Linisfarne provided closing reflections. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Workshop convenors gratefully acknowledge support from the Oppenheimer Fund, QEH, the Oxford Development Studies, QEH, Department of International Development, University of Oxford and the British Academy |
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