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During the first decade of the 20th century we have witnessed increasing concerns for the world economy with demands for new financial capital to pay off huge national debts and pressures for economic growth all over the world. On top of that there is an increasing ecological crisis as well as a humanitarian crisis due to poverty, violence and war, which is at least partly due narrow economic goals and do not pay much attention to the wider en...

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This book presents a research that has developed from working experiences with churches and voluntary aid agencies in East Africa. The particular problem explored is that management is narrowly restricted by earmarked funding from many different donors. What happens then is that management structures reflect external strategies and ideas rather than own organisational identity and strategy. Managers become occupied with short term and fragment...

Description:The overall problem raised in this book is that the Western culture of modern rationality, power, and economics departs from a rather narrow, secular and ego-centric worldview. Therefore, it does not recognize the identity of traditional cultures and religions nor social, economic, or ecological justice in relation to the rest of the world.Western religion has, over history, often played a legitimating role for political power, and...