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Katherine Marshall’s thorough and thoughtful critique of my chapter raises a number of important objections. However, it appears that among her most important criticisms is that I didn’t write a different chapter. To clarify, my chapter was not a general survey of the literature on ‘religion and development’ (which has already been admirably carried out by Jones and Peterson, whom I cited). It was not an attempt to present a systematic analysis of Marshall’s substantial corpus and its evolution over time. Nor, indeed, was it intended to be a comprehensive and detailed proposal as to where to go from here. These are all useful and valuable tasks – some are arguably more pressing than the argument I provided – but none were the goals of the chapter.
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de Vries, H. (2008) ‘Introduction: Why Still ‘Religion’?’ in H. de Vries (ed.) Religion: Beyond a Concept (New York: Fordham University Press), pp. 1–98.
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Fountain, P. (2013). On Having Faith in the MDGs: A Response to Katherine Marshall. In: Carbonnier, G., Kartas, M., Silva, K.T. (eds) International Development Policy: Religion and Development. International Development Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137329387_4
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