1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910340843103321

Autore

Tamimi Arab Pooyan

Titolo

Gods huis in de steigers / Pooyan Tamimi Arab, Daan Beekers, Oskar Verkaaik

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, : Amsterdam University Press, 2017

Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2017

ISBN

9789048533589

9048533589

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272)

Soggetti

Religious buildings

Lingua di pubblicazione

Olandese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

In this book three anthropologists explore contemporary religious architecture and they develop an original vision on the religious landscape in the Netherlands and Europe. Mosques, synagogues and churches do not only facilitate and symbolize religion, the intimate relationship we have with these buildings touches the essence of what religion is today - in both a positive and a negative sense.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910141046403321

Autore

Kilby Patrick

Titolo

NGOs in india : the challenges of women's empowerment and accountability / / Patrick Kilby

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Taylor & Francis, 2010

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

9786612930201

9781136907753

1136907750

9781136907760

1136907769

9781282930209

1282930206

9780203842720

0203842723

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (161 p.)

Collana

Routledge contemporary south asia series

Classificazione

POL000000SOC008000SOC053000

Disciplina

305.48/969420954091724

Soggetti

Community development - India

Non-governmental organizations - India

Women in development - India

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Glossary; Introduction; 1 Non-governmental organizations in India; 2 The work of NGOs in India - SHGs and women's empowerment; 3 Rural NGOs; 4 Pune waste-pickers programme; 5 Measuring women's empowerment; 6 NGO accountability; 7 Conclusion; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

By examining how NGOs operate in Southern India in the early 2000's, this book discusses the challenges faced by small, local NGOs in the uncertain times of changing aid dynamics. The key findings focus on what empowerment means for Indian women, and how NGO accountability to these groups is an important part of the



empowerment being realised.The notion of community empowerment, in which the 'solidarity' of a group can be a path to individual empowerment, is discussed, as well as analysing how empowerment can be a useful concept in development. Based on case studies of 15 NGOs as wel