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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
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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
Produktdetails
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- Verlag: Duke University Press
- Seitenzahl: 384
- Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2009
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 28mm
- Gewicht: 680g
- ISBN-13: 9780822343561
- ISBN-10: 0822343568
- Artikelnr.: 26553317
- Verlag: Duke University Press
- Seitenzahl: 384
- Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2009
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 28mm
- Gewicht: 680g
- ISBN-13: 9780822343561
- ISBN-10: 0822343568
- Artikelnr.: 26553317
Foreword / Jacob Olupona ix
Acknowledgments xxi
Introduction / Peter J. Paris 1
Part 1. The Roots and Impact of Poverty
An Ethical Mapping of the Transatlantic Slave Trade / Katie G. Cannon 19
Feminization of Poverty Across Pan-African Societies: the Church's
Response—Alleviative or Emancipatory / Barbara Bailey 39
Part 2. Challenges of the Global and Informal Economices
The Informal Economy and the Religion of Global Cities / Takatso A.
Mofokeng 69
A Theological Perspective on the Effects of Globalization on Poverty in
Pan-African Contexts / Lewin L. Williams 88
Part 3. Religious Strategies for Liberating the Poor
African Traditional Religion and the Concept of Poverty / Elizabeth Amoah
111
Religion and Poverty: Ritual and Empowerment in Africa and the African
Diaspora / Linda E. Thomas and Dwight N. Hopkins 128
The Bible and Poverty in African Pentecostal Christianity: The Bosadi
(Womanhood) Approach / Madipoane Masenya 152
The Struggle for Full Humanity in Poverty-Stricken Kenya / Nyambura J.
Njoroge 166
Part 4. The Ambiguous Relation of Religion and Poverty
Poverty Among African People and the Ambiguous Role of Christian Thought /
Kossi A. Ayezde 193
Religion and Materiality: The Case of Poverty Alleviation / Esther M. Mombo
213
Warm Bodies, Cold Currency: A Study of Religion's Response to Poverty /
Anthony B. Pinn 228
Part 5. Practical Theories for Combating Poverty
Nyerere on Ujamaa and Christianity as Transforming Forces in Society /
Laurenti Magesa 249
Caribbean Issues: The Caribbean and African American Churches' Response /
Noel Leo Erskine 272
Africa's Poverty, Human Rights, and a Just Society / Simeon O. Ilesanmi 293
Self-Initiation: A Necessary Principle in the African Struggle to Abolish
Poverty / Peter J. Paris
Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments xxi
Introduction / Peter J. Paris 1
Part 1. The Roots and Impact of Poverty
An Ethical Mapping of the Transatlantic Slave Trade / Katie G. Cannon 19
Feminization of Poverty Across Pan-African Societies: the Church's
Response—Alleviative or Emancipatory / Barbara Bailey 39
Part 2. Challenges of the Global and Informal Economices
The Informal Economy and the Religion of Global Cities / Takatso A.
Mofokeng 69
A Theological Perspective on the Effects of Globalization on Poverty in
Pan-African Contexts / Lewin L. Williams 88
Part 3. Religious Strategies for Liberating the Poor
African Traditional Religion and the Concept of Poverty / Elizabeth Amoah
111
Religion and Poverty: Ritual and Empowerment in Africa and the African
Diaspora / Linda E. Thomas and Dwight N. Hopkins 128
The Bible and Poverty in African Pentecostal Christianity: The Bosadi
(Womanhood) Approach / Madipoane Masenya 152
The Struggle for Full Humanity in Poverty-Stricken Kenya / Nyambura J.
Njoroge 166
Part 4. The Ambiguous Relation of Religion and Poverty
Poverty Among African People and the Ambiguous Role of Christian Thought /
Kossi A. Ayezde 193
Religion and Materiality: The Case of Poverty Alleviation / Esther M. Mombo
213
Warm Bodies, Cold Currency: A Study of Religion's Response to Poverty /
Anthony B. Pinn 228
Part 5. Practical Theories for Combating Poverty
Nyerere on Ujamaa and Christianity as Transforming Forces in Society /
Laurenti Magesa 249
Caribbean Issues: The Caribbean and African American Churches' Response /
Noel Leo Erskine 272
Africa's Poverty, Human Rights, and a Just Society / Simeon O. Ilesanmi 293
Self-Initiation: A Necessary Principle in the African Struggle to Abolish
Poverty / Peter J. Paris
Contributors
Index
Foreword / Jacob Olupona ix
Acknowledgments xxi
Introduction / Peter J. Paris 1
Part 1. The Roots and Impact of Poverty
An Ethical Mapping of the Transatlantic Slave Trade / Katie G. Cannon 19
Feminization of Poverty Across Pan-African Societies: the Church's
Response—Alleviative or Emancipatory / Barbara Bailey 39
Part 2. Challenges of the Global and Informal Economices
The Informal Economy and the Religion of Global Cities / Takatso A.
Mofokeng 69
A Theological Perspective on the Effects of Globalization on Poverty in
Pan-African Contexts / Lewin L. Williams 88
Part 3. Religious Strategies for Liberating the Poor
African Traditional Religion and the Concept of Poverty / Elizabeth Amoah
111
Religion and Poverty: Ritual and Empowerment in Africa and the African
Diaspora / Linda E. Thomas and Dwight N. Hopkins 128
The Bible and Poverty in African Pentecostal Christianity: The Bosadi
(Womanhood) Approach / Madipoane Masenya 152
The Struggle for Full Humanity in Poverty-Stricken Kenya / Nyambura J.
Njoroge 166
Part 4. The Ambiguous Relation of Religion and Poverty
Poverty Among African People and the Ambiguous Role of Christian Thought /
Kossi A. Ayezde 193
Religion and Materiality: The Case of Poverty Alleviation / Esther M. Mombo
213
Warm Bodies, Cold Currency: A Study of Religion's Response to Poverty /
Anthony B. Pinn 228
Part 5. Practical Theories for Combating Poverty
Nyerere on Ujamaa and Christianity as Transforming Forces in Society /
Laurenti Magesa 249
Caribbean Issues: The Caribbean and African American Churches' Response /
Noel Leo Erskine 272
Africa's Poverty, Human Rights, and a Just Society / Simeon O. Ilesanmi 293
Self-Initiation: A Necessary Principle in the African Struggle to Abolish
Poverty / Peter J. Paris
Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments xxi
Introduction / Peter J. Paris 1
Part 1. The Roots and Impact of Poverty
An Ethical Mapping of the Transatlantic Slave Trade / Katie G. Cannon 19
Feminization of Poverty Across Pan-African Societies: the Church's
Response—Alleviative or Emancipatory / Barbara Bailey 39
Part 2. Challenges of the Global and Informal Economices
The Informal Economy and the Religion of Global Cities / Takatso A.
Mofokeng 69
A Theological Perspective on the Effects of Globalization on Poverty in
Pan-African Contexts / Lewin L. Williams 88
Part 3. Religious Strategies for Liberating the Poor
African Traditional Religion and the Concept of Poverty / Elizabeth Amoah
111
Religion and Poverty: Ritual and Empowerment in Africa and the African
Diaspora / Linda E. Thomas and Dwight N. Hopkins 128
The Bible and Poverty in African Pentecostal Christianity: The Bosadi
(Womanhood) Approach / Madipoane Masenya 152
The Struggle for Full Humanity in Poverty-Stricken Kenya / Nyambura J.
Njoroge 166
Part 4. The Ambiguous Relation of Religion and Poverty
Poverty Among African People and the Ambiguous Role of Christian Thought /
Kossi A. Ayezde 193
Religion and Materiality: The Case of Poverty Alleviation / Esther M. Mombo
213
Warm Bodies, Cold Currency: A Study of Religion's Response to Poverty /
Anthony B. Pinn 228
Part 5. Practical Theories for Combating Poverty
Nyerere on Ujamaa and Christianity as Transforming Forces in Society /
Laurenti Magesa 249
Caribbean Issues: The Caribbean and African American Churches' Response /
Noel Leo Erskine 272
Africa's Poverty, Human Rights, and a Just Society / Simeon O. Ilesanmi 293
Self-Initiation: A Necessary Principle in the African Struggle to Abolish
Poverty / Peter J. Paris
Contributors
Index