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Religion and poverty : Pan-African perspectives / Peter J. Paris, ed. ; foreword by Jacob Olupona.

e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection 2009 Available online

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Paris, Peter J., 1933-
Olupona, Jacob K. (Jacob Kẹhinde), 1951-
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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