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A.T. Ariyaratne’s contention that a preoccupation with the material and financial dimensions of development can undermine its spiritual and cultural dimensions may sound somewhat romantic and impractical. His Sarvodaya Movement, however, based on the philosophy that the material improvement of communities is merely a means to their spiritual awakening, is one of the world¡¯s largest and most effective community development organizations. Most villages in Sri Lanka have had some contact with and been benefited by Sarvodaya community development work. The Sarvodaya Movement is tremendously popular in Sri Lanka, largely because it seeks to facilitate spiritual awakening through community and economic empowerment (Bond, 1996).
‘[W]estern donors just do not grasp the deep spiritual and cultural dimensions necessary for real development and what these mean for the people. In essence, for western donors, nonconformity with so-called normal patterns of materialistic development is not permissible.’
Ariyaratne (1995a), p. 12
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Candland, C. (2001). Faith as social capital: Religion and community development in Southern Asia. In: Montgomery, J.D., Inkeles, A. (eds) Social Capital as a Policy Resource. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-6531-1_8
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