ABSTRACT
IN THE WORK OF WORLD VlSION AND CHRISTIAN CARE, MORAL categories of good and evil provided an interpretive frame for economic activity. Christian development constituted categories-of the developed and the undeveloped, the “evangelized” Christian and the “unreached”—and inspired tensions over these categories. Perhaps all development, secular and religious alike,1 makes distinctions between human beings and attempts to make new persons in the process. Development discourse is itself relational and morally charged, reconstituting the previously existing ethical ground in the lives of those who do the “developing” and those who are “being developed” (Ferguson 1995). For employees of religious NGOs in Zimbabwe, the danger of witchcraft lurked in this morally charged ground.
