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As state economic policies promote integration under a single logic of modernist development, many impoverished groups remain on the margins. Development in Spirit explores the practices employed by communities on the fringes of such nation-building projects.

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In this stimulating study, Rumsby shows how Christianity offers the Hmong in northwest Vietnam autonomous resources for engaging with state-directed modernization. Empowered by their faith, the people of this uplands minority have charted a path to development that promises prosperity and coexistence with the state on their own terms." - Philip Taylor, Australian National University

Table of Contents
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Historical Context and Strange Parallels
  • Chapter 2. Changing Livelihoods, Precarious
  • Development Trajectories
  • Chapter 3. The Political Economy of New Christian
  • Elites
  • Chapter 4. Neoliberalism in Everyday Life
  • Chapter 5. Conversion and Gender Relations
  • Conclusion. Alternative Paths to Development?
  • Appendix
  • Bibliography
  • Index

Development in Spirit Religious Transformation

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      Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
      Publication Date: 30/06/2023
      ISBN13: 9780299342302, 978-0299342302
      ISBN10: 0299342301
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      As state economic policies promote integration under a single logic of modernist development, many impoverished groups remain on the margins. Development in Spirit explores the practices employed by communities on the fringes of such nation-building projects.

      Trade Review
      In this stimulating study, Rumsby shows how Christianity offers the Hmong in northwest Vietnam autonomous resources for engaging with state-directed modernization. Empowered by their faith, the people of this uplands minority have charted a path to development that promises prosperity and coexistence with the state on their own terms." - Philip Taylor, Australian National University

      Table of Contents
      • CONTENTS
      • Acknowledgments
      • Introduction
      • Chapter 1. Historical Context and Strange Parallels
      • Chapter 2. Changing Livelihoods, Precarious
      • Development Trajectories
      • Chapter 3. The Political Economy of New Christian
      • Elites
      • Chapter 4. Neoliberalism in Everyday Life
      • Chapter 5. Conversion and Gender Relations
      • Conclusion. Alternative Paths to Development?
      • Appendix
      • Bibliography
      • Index

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