Research Catalog

Title

Development to a different drummer : Anabaptist/Mennonite experiences and perspectives / Richard A. Yoder, Calvin W. Redekop, & Vernon E. Jantzi.

Author

Yoder, Richard A.

Publication

Intercourse, PA : Good Books, c2004.

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Additional Authors

• Redekop, Calvin Wall, 1925-
• Jantzi, Vernon Eugene, 1941-

Description

362 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Subject

Economic development > Mennonites

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-353) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Part I. Overview and background -- 1. Introduction -- Purpose -- Methods -- Overview -- 2. Mainstream Development : competing perspectives -- What is development? -- How is development measured? -- How do we get there? -- Who is responsible and who has control? -- 3. Historical overview of Mennonite work in development -- Introduction -- Mennonite missions: pioneering in development work -- Mennonite Central Committee and development -- Mennonite Economic Development Associates and development.
• Part II. A variety of international development experiences -- 4. Grassroots perspectives -- Introduction -- Development as connectedness / Susan Classen -- Carrying tortillas into the ivory tower and theories into mud houses: connecting competing realities along the path of service / Ann Graber Hershberger -- Development and peace: you can't have one without the other / Jan Jenner -- 5. Middle ground perspectives -- Introduction -- The accidental development worker / Vernon E. Jantzi -- Reflections on my experiences in international development / Luann Martin -- Reflections on my experience in development / Allan Saucier -- 6. Large-scale public policy perspectives -- Introduction -- My journey from the cornfields to the World Bank / Raymond Martin -- It all started with National Geographic / Beth Heisey Kuttab -- From ambulance-driving to public policy / Richard A. Yoder.
• Part III. The analysis -- Introduction -- 7. Common assumptions, themes, and patterns -- Why have you chosen this occupational path? -- How do practitioners experience doing development work? -- Have you made a difference? -- What would you have done differently, given the opportunity? -- What are the growing edges? What does the future hold? -- 8. Toward an Anabaptist/Mennonite ethic of development -- Ethics and ethical frameworks: a brief definition -- Elements of an Anabaptist ethic of development -- Deriving the ethic -- Values and means -- Ultimate goals -- Concluding thoughts -- Summary of an Anabaptist theology and ethic -- Convergences and divergences between Anabaptist theology and ethics: an Anabaptist development ethic.
• 9. What kind of world? -- Realities, visions, dilemmas, and opportunities realities -- Poverty and economic inequality -- Culture and identity -- Religion and cultural resistance --Political democracy and power -- Global citizens' groups and justice advocacy -- Tensions, dilemmas, and opportunities -- Raising goats or changing systems? -- Bridging the gap -- Living well while doing good? -- Building on or destroying local culture and natural resources? -- Connect or disconnect with the missiological thrust of religious organizations? -- Power: acknowledging, using, and misusing it -- The nature of development, and where best to situate policy formation efforts -- Afterward: an invitation to come together with a faithful and prophetic development ethic -- Appendix: a brief sketch of the Anabaptist/Mennonite movement.

ISBN

1561484539 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2004020666

OCLC

56528137

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library