Religion and community development : working with African Communities
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Ayallo, Irene
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2015-02
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Conference Contribution - Oral Presentation
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African migrants
African refugees
religion and community development
community development
African refugees
religion and community development
community development
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Ayallo, I. (2015, February). Religion and community development : working with African Communities. Paper presented at Community Development Conference, Unitec Institute of Technology
Abstract
In this paper, I discuss the potential role of religion as an agent of community
development with African communities. I hope to offer a greater clarity of the
relationship between religion, personal wellbeing and social action within African
worldview (Lunn, 2009).
My hope is that this presentation will be useful for practitioners working with African
communities for reflecting on ways in which we may be able to encompass religion as
a factor in community development approaches. Particularly looks at a number of
specific fields that are widely considered in the practice of community development to
reflect on ways in which religious ideas may be relevant to community development
processes.
This paper is drawn from direct experience, more than abstract analysis or research. I
am a community development researcher and practitioner with a commitment to
working with people at margins of society (particularly young women). I also bring to
this article my experience of an African in diaspora (or migrant African). In some
respects, therefore, this article recounts a personal intellectual and practical journey.
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