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Introduction

An international research partnership exploring the relationships between several major world religions, development in low-income countries and poverty reduction.

It focuses on four countries (India, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Tanzania), enabling the research team to study most of the major world religions: Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism and African traditional belief systems.

Based at the University of Birmingham, England, the programme works with researchers in other UK institutions and the focus countries.

Announcements

RaD Conference 2010

First Announcement and Call for Papers

Religion Shaping Development: Inspirational, Inhibiting, Institutionalised?

21-23 July 2010, University of Birmingham, England

A major event organised by the Religions and Development Research Programme

Latest News

Read the latest reports on some recent events attended by members of the RaD programme:

Religion, Ethics and Attitudes Toward Corruption in India, Workshop held at the University of Hyderabad, India, 28-29 January 2010

Life After the Riots: Violence, Rehabilitation and Citizenship, Report of a Seminar held in Ahmedabad, India, 15 December 2009

Latest Research Outputs

The following Policy Briefs, Working Papers and Research Summaries have recently been added to the website:

Policy Briefs

Policy Brief 1 (2009) Rethinking madrasa reform in Pakistan

Policy Brief 2 (2009) Religions, democracy and governance: spaces for the marginalized in contemporary India

Policy Brief 3 (2009) Ambivalent state-madrasa relationships and madrasa modernization in India

Working Papers

Working Paper 15 (2009) The State and Madrasas in India Padmaja Nair

Working Paper 35 (2009) Beyond the Religious Impasse: Mobilizing for Muslim Women's Rights in India Nida Kirmani

Working Paper 39 (2009) Religion, Politics and Governance in Nigeria Insa Nolte with Nathaniel Danjibo and Abubaker Oladeji

Working Paper 40 (2009) Religion, Politics and the Everyday Moral Order in Bangladesh Joe Devine and Sarah White

Research Summaries

Working Paper 15 (2009) The state and madrasas in India Padmaja Nair

Working Paper 35 (2009) Mobilizing for Muslim women's rights in India Nida Kirmani

Working Paper 39 (2009) Religion, Politics and Governance in Nigeria Insa Nolte, Nathaniel Danjibo and Abubaker Oladeji

Working Paper 40 (2009) Religion, Politics and the Everyday Moral Order in Bangladesh Joe Devine and Sarah White

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The Golden Temple (Harimandir Sahib), Amritsar, India. The Golden Temple is the Sikhs' holiest shrine.

Photograph taken by Gurharpal Singh, February 2007

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