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Religion and poverty : Pan-African perspectives / Peter J. Paris, ed. ; foreword by Jacob Olupona.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- e-Duke books scholarly collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christianity--Africa.
- Christianity.
- Church and social problems--Africa.
- Church and social problems.
- Religion and civil society--Africa.
- Religion and civil society.
- Poverty--Africa.
- Poverty.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (386 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Examines religion-centered resistance strategies of the poor in Africa and its diaspora, analyzing the roots and structure of this poverty, religion's interaction with globalization and informal markets, and how the politics of social and economic amelior
- Contents:
- An ethical mapping of the transatlantic slave trade / Katie G. Cannon, United States
- Feminization of poverty across Pan-African societies : The Church's response; alleviative or emancipatory? / Barbara Bailey, Jamaica
- The informal economy and the religion of global capital / Takatso A. Mofokeng, South Africa
- A theological perspective on the effects of globalization on poverty in Pan-African
- Contexts / Lewin L. Williams, Jamaica
- African traditional religion and the concept of poverty / Elizabeth Amoah, Ghana
- Religion and poverty : ritual and empowerment in Africa and the African diaspora / Linda E. Thomas and Dwight N. Hopkins, United States
- The Bible and poverty in African Pentecostal Christianity : The Bosadi (Womanhood) approach / Madipoane Masenya, South Africa
- The struggle for full humanity in poverty-stricken Kenya / Nyambura J. Njoroge, Kenya and Geneva
- Poverty among African people and the ambiguous role of Christian thought / Kossi A. Ayedze, Togo
- Religion and materiality : the case of poverty alleviation / Esther M. Mombo, Kenya
- Warm bodies, cold currency : a study of religion's response to poverty / Anthony B. Pinn, United States
- Nyerere on Ujamaa and Christianity as transforming forces in society / Laurenti Magesa, Tanzania
- Caribbean issues : the Caribbean and African American Churches' response / Noel Leo Erskine, Jamaica and United States
- Africa's poverty, human rights, and a just society / Simeon O. Ilesanmi, Nigeria and United States
- Self-initiation : a necessary principle in the African struggle to abolish poverty / Peter J. Paris, Canada and United States.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613036520
- 9781283036528
- 1283036525
- 9780822392309
- 0822392305
- OCLC:
- 492386051
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