Religion and poverty : Pan-African perspectives /

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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

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Paris, Peter J., 1933-, Olupona, Jacob K. (Jacob Kẹhinde), 1951-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2009.
Colección:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Temas:
Christianity > Africa.
Church and social problems > Africa.
Religion and civil society > Africa.
Poverty > Africa.
Christianisme > Afrique.
Église et problèmes sociaux > Afrique.
Religion et société civile > Afrique.
Pauvreté > Afrique.
RELIGION > Christian Life > Social Issues.
RELIGION > Christianity > General.
RELIGION > Christian Theology > General.
Christianity
Church and social problems
Poverty
Religion and civil society
Africa
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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