Center on Religion & the Professions

Improving religious literacy among professionals.

EVENT: Third Goal International Film Festival

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From the organizers: The Third Goal International Film Festival is a showcase of films covering diverse topics of worldwide significance; each film was either impacted by a Peace Corps volunteer or features significant issues faced in the countries hosting volunteers. Films were followed by speakers’ panels featuring Returned Peace Corps Volunteers from the highlighted region(s) as well as country nationals.

Date/Time:

6 p.m. Friday, Jan. 31: Chat with filmmaker Ashley Tindall about rough cuts of her film 27 Months, which follows Peace Corps volunteers on their journeys around the world.

The following is a list of screenings for the film festival, all held on Saturday, Feb. 1:

Location: The conversation with filmmaker Ashley Tindall will be held in Columbia Access Television Studio A, 1405 E. Broadway. The Third Goal International Film Festival will be held in the MU Student Center.

Cost: Free

For more information: Visit the festival’s website to learn more.

Community development: Articles

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  • “Is it God or Just the Data that Moves in Mysterious Ways? How Well-Being Research may be Mistaking Faith for Virtue” by James Benjamin Schuurmans-Stekhoven. Social Indicators Research. 100, no. 2 (2011): 313
  • “Faith and fragile states: why the development community needs religion” by Seth Kaplan. Harvard International Review, March 22, 2009.
  • “African American Religion: The Struggle for Community Development in a Southern City” by Said Sewell/State University of West Georgia. The Journal of Southern Religion, 2001.
  • “Media, religion and democratic participation: community communication in Zimbabwe and Norway” by Knut Lundby. Sage Publications, Inc., 1997.
  • “Power, conflict, and spirituality: A qualitative study of faith-based community organizing” by B. Christens, D.L. Jones and P.W. Speer. Qualitative Social Research, 9(1), 2008.
  • “Toward a community-oriented action research framework for spirituality: Community psychological and theological perspectives” by P.R. Dokecki, R.T. O’Gorman and J.R. Newbrough. Journal of Community Psychology, 29, 497-518, 2001.
  • “Dietary change through African American churches: Baseline results and program description of the Eat for Life trial” by K. Resnicow, D.C. Wallace, A. Jackson, A. DiGirolamo, E.  Odom, T. Wang, W. Dudley, M. Davis, D. Mitchell and T. Baranowski. Journal of Cancer Education, 15(3):156-163, 2000.
  • “Action Research on Leadership for Community Development in West Africa and North America: A Joining of Liberation Theology and Community Psychology” by J. Trout, P.R. Dokecki, J.R. Newbrough and R.T. O’Gorman. Journal of Community Psychology, 31, 129-148, 2003.
  • “Taking the Sanctuary to the Streets: Religion, Race, and Community Development in Columbus, Ohio” by Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 594, No. 1, 79-91, 2004.
  • “Role of Madrassas (Religious Institutions) in Community Development” by Bushra Akbar, Muhammad Imran, Asma Mustafa, Sidra Tariq, Iram Iqbal and Nazim Hussain(.pdf). Journal of Agriculture & Social Sciences. 1813–2235/2005/01–2–206–207
  • “Religious groups roped into IRCCs; 80% of these groups have joined Inter-Racial Confidence Circles, which will be renamed” by Sumathi Selvaretnam. The Straits Times (Singapore), Sept. 7, 2007.
  • “When God and Poverty Collide: Exploring the Myths of Faith-sponsored Community Development” by Tanja Winkler. Urban Studies, 45:10 (2008): 2009-2116.
  • “Faith-based programs and their influence on homelessness” by B.G. Bass. Family & Community Health, 32:4 (2009) 314-319.

Community development: Books

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  • Development and Religion: Theology and Practice. Matthew Clarke. Northampton, Mass: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011.
  • InterActive Faith: The Essential Interreligious Community-Building Handbook. Rev. Bud Heckman with Rori Picker Neiss (eds.) Woodstock, Vermont: Skylight Paths, 2008.
  • Cuba: Religion, Social Capital, and Development. Adrian H. Hearn Duke. University Press, 2008.
  • Religious institutions and faith-based community development corporations: a link between affordable housing and historic preservation in inner city neighborhoods. Andrea Joy Cochrane. Cochrane University of Pennsylvania Libraries, 1996.
  • Beyond Charity: The Call to Christian Community Development. John M. Perkins. Baker Books, 1993.
  • Finding Global Balance: Common Grounds Between the Worlds of Development And Faith. Lucy Keough. World Bank Publications, 2005.
  • Human rights, the UN and the Bahá’ís in Iran. Nazila Ghanea-Hercock. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2002.

Community development: Case studies

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