Research Programme on Religious Communities and Sustainable Development

Research Report (German only)

• Potenziale der Zusammenarbeit mit African Initiated Churches für nachhaltige Entwicklung 
  
  "Potentials of Cooperation with African Initiated Churches for Sustainable Development - Summary of Findings and Advice for German Development Policies"Ergebniszusammenfassung des Forschungsprojekts und Handlungsempfehlungen für die deutsche Entwicklungspolitik

Policy Briefs of the Research Programme on Religious Communities and Sustainable Development

The Research Programme on Religious Communities and Sustainable Development shares current research results in policy briefs. The briefs provide policymakers, development practitioners and the professional public with information on current topics and recent results of the Research Programme. The aim is to create impulses for the development policy discourse.

• Policy Brief 04/2021: Keeping Faith in 2030? Religions and the Sustainable Development Goals

• Policy Brief 03/2021: Religion in Times of a Pandemic: Reflections on the National Act of Remembrance for the Victims of the Pandemic and its Implications for Development Policy. 
• Policy Brief 02/2021: Pope Francis’ Historic Visit to Iraq: Its Significance for the Christian Minority, Religious Diversity and Reconstruction
• Policy Brief 01/2021: “More than just having church” – COVID-19 and African Initiated Churches
• Policy Brief 03/2020: Religious Leaders' Perspectives on Corona – Preliminary Findings
• Policy Brief 02/2020: Religious Communities and Corona in the Middle East
• Policy Brief 01/2020: History Matters
• Policy Brief 04/2019: Ökologische Nachhaltigkeit in African Initiated Churches

• Policy Brief 03/2019: Religion und Entwicklung:Die Herausforderungen staatlicher  Entwicklungspolitik in der Zusammenarbeit mit religiösen Gemeinschaften

• Policy Brief 02/2019: Religion und Politik in Afrika: Neue Dynamiken des Politischen in African Initiated Churches
• Policy Brief 01/2019: AICs in Ostafrika – Unabhängigkeit, Bildung, Landwirtschaft
• Policy Brief 04/2018: Youth Empowerment and African Initiated Churches in Urban Zimbabwe
• Policy Brief 03/2018: Religion matters - African Initiated Churches matter! (in German, English summary on the last page)
• Policy Brief 02/2018: What are African Initiated Churches? (in German, English summary on the last page)
• Policy Brief 01/2018: AICs in West Africa - Professional Actors in the Health and Education Sectors (in German, English summary on the last page)

Discussion Paper Series

The Discussion Paper Series of the Research Programme on Religious Communities and Sustainable Development aims to contribute to the discourse about religion and development by putting up research on specific topics for scholarly debate. The discussion papers will include research reports by the Research Programme on Religious Communities and Sustainable Development. In addition, we also invite researchers interested in making their work available to a wider audience to contribute to the series.

• Discussion Paper 04/2022:
  The Reasons for Return of Internally Displaced Christians to Baghdeda (Nora Monzer & Philipp Öhlmann)
• Discussion Paper 03/2022:

  Is Military Liberation from Daesh Enough to Return? A Case Study of Christians’ Non-Return to the Ninewa Plain in Iraq (Serri Mahmood)

• Discussion Paper 02/2022:
  And Yet It Moves: Dream and Reality of the Ecumenical Movement – Reflections on the WCC Assembly in Karlsruhe (Dietrich Werner)
• Discussion Paper 01/2022:

  ‘I Got the Call – Not Him’: Founding an African Initiated Church as an Act of Emancipation (Marie-Luise Frost)

• Discussion Paper 03/2021:
  Local Faith Actors and the Migration-Develpment Nexus: A Literature Review (Susanna Trotta)
• Discussion Paper 02/2021:
  Ubuntu and ‘Development’: Decolonizing Epistemologies (Raphael Sartorius)
• Discussion Paper 01/2021:
  The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria and Societal Development (Yetunde Abolaji Akinnawo)
• Discussion Paper 01/2019: 
  The Challenge of Environment and Climate Justice: Imperatives of an Eco-Theological Reformation of Christianity in African Contexts (Dietrich Werner)
• Discussion Paper 03/2018:
  "Religion and Sustainable Development: The “Secular Distinction” in Development Policy and its Implication for Development Cooperation with Religious Communities" (Philipp Öhlmann, Stefan Hunglinger, Wilhelm Gräb & Marie-Luise Frost)
• Discussion Paper 02/2018:
  "Pentecostal Charismatic Christianity and the Management of Precarity in Post-Colonial Zimbabwe" (Josiah Taru)
• Discussion Paper 01/2018:
  "Avoiding ‘White Elephants’ – Fruitful Development Cooperation from the Perspective of African Initiated Churches in South Africa and Beyond" (Philipp Öhlmann, Marie-Luise Frost & Wilhelm Gräb)
• Discussion Paper 01/2017:
  "African Initiated Churches and Sustainable Development in South Africa – Potentials and Perspectives" (Philipp Öhlmann, Marie-Luise Frost & Wilhelm Gräb)

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

• Marie-Luise Frost, Philipp Öhlmann & Wilhelm Gräb. 2018. "Avoiding ‘White Elephants’ – Fruitful Development Cooperation from the Perspective of African Initiated Churches in South Africa and Beyond". In: Babatunde Adedibu & Benson Igboin (Eds.). The Changing Faces of African Pentecostalism. Akungba-Akoko, Adekunle Ajasin University Press, 103-118.

• Philipp Öhlmann, Marie-Luise Frost & Wilhelm Gräb. 2016. “African Initiated Churches’ potential as development actors.” HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies 72 (4): 9.

  doi:10.4102/hts.v72i4.3825.

Reports

• Philipp Öhlmann, Marie-Luise Frost, Wilhelm Gräb & Rolf Schieder. 2016. Sind African Initiated Churches geeignete Partner für zukünftige Entwicklungszusammenarbeit? Wissenschaftliches Gutachten im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung. Berlin: Humboldt-Unversität zu Berlin.

  doi:10.18452/13675l