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Foreword | p. ix |
Acknowledgments | p. xxi |
Introduction | p. 1 |
The Roots and Impact of Poverty | |
An Ethical Mapping of the Transatlantic Slave Trade | p. 19 |
Feminization of Poverty Across Pan-African societies: The Church's Response-Alleviative Or Emancipatory? | p. 39 |
Challenges of the Global and Informal Economies | |
The Informal Economy and the Religion of Global Capital | p. 69 |
A Theological Perspective on the Effects of Globalization on Poverty in Pan-African Contexts | p. 88 |
Religious Strategies for Liberating the Poor | |
African Traditional Religion and the Concept of Poverty | p. 111 |
Religion and Poverty: Ritual and Empowerment in Africa and the African Diaspora | p. 128 |
The Bible and Poverty in African Pentecostal Christianity: The Bosadi (Womanhood) Approach | p. 152 |
The Struggle for Full Humanity in Poverty-Stricken Kenya | p. 166 |
The Ambiguous Relation of Religion and Poverty | |
Poverty Among African People and the Ambiguous Role of Christian Thought | p. 193 |
Religion and Materiality: The Case of Poverty Alleviation | p. 213 |
Warm Bodies, Cold Currency: A Study of Religion's Response to Poverty | p. 228 |
Practical Theories for Combating Poverty | |
Nyerere on Ujamaa and Christianity as Transforming Forces in Society | p. 249 |
Caribbean Issues: The Caribbean and African American Churches' response | p. 272 |
Africa's Poverty, Human Rights, and a Just Society | p. 293 |
Self-Initiation: A Necessary Principle in the African Struggle to Abolish Poverty | p. 317 |
Contributors | p. 341 |
Index | p. 343 |
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