Religion and poverty
Subtitle: Pan-African perspectives
By: Peter J. Paris, ed. ; foreword by Jacob Olupona.
Contributors: Paris, Peter J., 1933-; Olupọna, Jacob Obafẹmi Kẹhinde.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780822343561; 9780822343783
Subjects: Christianity -- Africa; Church and social problems -- Africa; Religion and civil society -- Africa; Poverty -- Africa
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: An ethical mapping of the transatlantic slave trade / Katie G. Cannon, United States; title: Feminization of poverty across Pan-African societies : The Church's response; alleviative or emancipatory? / Barbara Bailey, Jamaica; title: The informal economy and the religion of global capital / Takatso A. Mofokeng, South Africa; title: A theological perspective on the effects of globalization on poverty in Pan-African; title: Contexts / Lewin L. Williams, Jamaica; title: African traditional religion and the concept of poverty / Elizabeth Amoah, Ghana; title: Religion and poverty : ritual and empowerment in Africa and the African diaspora / Linda E. Thomas and Dwight N. Hopkins, United States; title: The Bible and poverty in African Pentecostal Christianity : The Bosadi (Womanhood) approach / Madipoane Masenya, South Africa; title: The struggle for full humanity in poverty-stricken Kenya / Nyambura J. Njoroge, Kenya and Geneva; title: Poverty among African people and the ambiguous role of Christian thought / Kossi A. Ayedze, Togo; title: Religion and materiality : the case of poverty alleviation / Esther M. Mombo, Kenya; title: Warm bodies, cold currency : a study of religion's response to poverty / Anthony B. Pinn, United States; title: Nyerere on Ujamaa and Christianity as transforming forces in society / Laurenti Magesa, Tanzania; title: Caribbean issues : the Caribbean and African American Churches' response / Noel Leo Erskine, Jamaica and United States; title: Africa's poverty, human rights, and a just society / Simeon O. Ilesanmi, Nigeria and United States; title: Self-initiation : a necessary principle in the African struggle to abolish poverty / Peter J. Paris, Canada and United States.