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
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
Peter J. Paris is the Elmer G. Homrighausen Professor of Christian Social Ethics Emeritus at the Princeton Theological Seminary. He is the author of Virtues and Values: The African and African American Experience, The History of the Riverside Church in the City of New York, and The Spirituality of African Peoples: The Search for a Common Moral Discourse. Jacob Olupona is Professor of African Religious Traditions at the Harvard Divinity School.
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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
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
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