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This book is an examination of the connections between modern economic practices, globalization, and contemporary Christian religious belief, based on an ethnographic study of NGOs in Zimbabwe. It addresses issues crucial for those interested in the strengths and weaknesses of development theory and practice, as well as in Protestant Christianity as a transnational religion.

Erica Bornstein is Associate Professor of Anthropology at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is author of The Spirit of Development: Protestant NGOs, Morality, and Economics in Zimbabwe (Stanford, 2005).

Erica Bornstein is Associate Professor of Anthropology at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is author of The Spirit of Development: Protestant NGOs, Morality, and Economics in Zimbabwe (Stanford, 2005).

The surrealism of imagining contemporary humanitarian techniques applied to historical events indicates more than dramatic technological transformation, it also suggests limits to contemporary assumptions about common human feeling and associated action. What is it about the present, we might wonder, that casts the care of strangers in such a leading role? The contributors to this volume critique the "aid industry” in an attempt to answer thes...