ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an analysis of the changing character of Christian pastoral power after the Reformation, and the contribution it made to the biopolitics of development through European colonial exploitation from the late seventeenth century, and the recruitment of so-called faith-based organisations (FBOs) by global liberal government from the late twentieth century onwards. The particular focus for the first is the evangelical Lutheran Francke Foundation instituted in Brandenburg-Prussia in the late seventeenth century, and, for the second, the Churches so closely implicated in US and British development-security complexes from the late twentieth century. This change was pursued most directly by the US and the UK, but it is a feature also of indigenous religio-political developments in sub-Saharan Africa. As a complex mutating assemblage of truth and rule, the religio-political nexus of the modern age thus yields analytically to the Foucauldean enframing of the politics of truth. Economy was integral to governance, just as spectacle was integral to rule.
