ABSTRACT
Despite the fact that many ‘non-western’ peoples are members of what one would consider the ‘developed’ world, the concept of development remains closely associated with western identity and its claims to capitalist prosperity and liberal democracy. Western identity, as argued in Chapter One, is also very much dependent on its Christian origins for the ways in which it constitutes, informs and conducts its presence in the world. For this reason, the book covers Christian practices that might be said to exist in ideas of subjectivity today. In particular, the reader should think of how the promise of development might be conceived in the same way that the Word of God has been used to call subjectivity into being with a promise.
