Religion and Poverty: Pan-African Perspectives

Media type: E-Book

Title: Religion and Poverty : Pan-African Perspectives

Contributor: Paris, Peter J [Author]; Pinn, Anthony B [Contributor]; Bailey, Barbara [Other]; Bailey, Barbara [Contributor]; Cannon, Katie Geneva [Other]; Hopkins, Dwight N [Contributor]; Amoah, Elizabeth [Contributor]; Mombo, Esther M [Contributor]; Olupona, Jacob [Contributor]; Cannon, Katie G [Contributor]; Ayedze, Kossi A [Contributor]; Magesa, Laurenti [Contributor]; Williams, Lewin L [Contributor]; Thomas, Linda E [Contributor]; Masenya, Madipoane [Contributor]; Mofokeng, Takatso A. [Other]; Erskine, Noel Leo [Contributor]; Njoroge, Nyambura J [Contributor]; Olupona, Jacob [Other]; Paris, Peter J [Contributor]; Ilesanmi, Simeon O [Contributor]; Mofokeng, Takatso A [Contributor]

Published: Durham: Duke University Press, [2009]
[Online-Ausgabe]

Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (384 p); 1 photo, 2 tables, 1 figure

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780822392309

ISBN: 9780822392309

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Keywords: Christianity Africa ; Church and social problems Africa ; Poverty Africa ; Religion and civil society Africa ; RELIGION / Christian Theology / General

Type of reproduction: [Online-Ausgabe]

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Footnote: In English
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web

Description: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION -- Part 1 The Roots and Impact of Poverty -- AN ETHICAL MAPPING OF THE TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE -- FEMINIZATION OF POVERTY ACROSS PAN-AFRICAN SOCIETIES: THE CHURCH'S RESPONSE-ALLEVIATIVE OR EMANCIPATORY? -- Part 2 Challenges of the Global and Informal Economies -- THE INFORMAL ECONOMY AND THE RELIGION OF GLOBAL CAPITAL -- A THEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE ON THE EFFECTS OF GLOBALIZATION ON POVERTY IN PAN-AFRICAN CONTEXTS -- Part 3 Religious Strategies for Liberating the Poor -- AFRICAN TRADITIONAL RELIGION AND THE CONCEPT OF POVERTY -- RELIGION AND POVERTY: RITUAL AND EMPOWERMENT IN AFRICA AND THE AFRICAN DIASPORA -- THE BIBLE AND POVERTY IN AFRICAN PENTECOSTAL CHRISTIANITY: THE BOSADI (WOMANHOOD) APPROACH -- THE STRUGGLE FOR FULL HUMANITY IN POVERTY-STRICKEN KENYA -- Part 4 The Ambiguous Relation of Religion and Poverty -- POVERTY AMONG AFRICAN PEOPLE AND THE AMBIGUOUS ROLE OF CHRISTIAN THOUGHT -- RELIGION AND MATERIALITY: THE CASE OF POVERTY ALLEVIATION -- WARM BODIES, COLD CURRENCY: A STUDY OF RELIGION'S RESPONSE TO POVERTY -- Part 5 Practical Theories for Combating Poverty -- NYERERE ON UJAMAA AND CHRISTIANITY AS TRANSFORMING FORCES IN SOCIETY -- CARIBBEAN ISSUES: THE CARIBBEAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN CHURCHES' RESPONSE -- AFRICA'S POVERTY, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND A JUST SOCIETY -- SELF-INITIATION: A NECESSARY PRINCIPLE IN THE AFRICAN STRUGGLE TO ABOLISH POVERTY -- Contributors -- Index

A Ghanaian scholar of religion argues that poverty is a particularly complex subject in traditional African cultures, where holistic worldviews unite life's material and spiritual dimensions. A South African ethicist examines informal economies in Ghana, Jamaica, Kenya, and South Africa, looking at their ideological roots, social organization, and vulnerability to global capital. African American theologians offer ethnographic accounts of empowering religious rituals performed in churches in the United States, Jamaica, and South Africa. This important collection brings together these and other Pan-African perspectives on religion and poverty in Africa and the African diaspora.Contributors from Africa and North America explore poverty's roots and effects, the ways that experiences and understandings of deprivation are shaped by religion, and the capacity and limitations of religion as a means of alleviating poverty. As part of a collaborative project, the contributors visited Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa, as well as Jamaica and the United States. In each location, they met with clergy, scholars, government representatives, and NGO workers, and they examined how religious groups and community organizations address poverty. Their essays complement one another. Some focus on poverty, some on religion, others on their intersection, and still others on social change. A Jamaican scholar of gender studies decries the feminization of poverty, while a Nigerian ethicist and lawyer argues that the protection of human rights must factor into efforts to overcome poverty. A church historian from Togo examines the idea of poverty as a moral virtue and its repercussions in Africa, and a Tanzanian theologian and priest analyzes ujamaa, an African philosophy of community and social change. Taken together, the volume's essays create a discourse of mutual understanding across linguistic, religious, ethnic, and national boundaries.Contributors. Elizabeth Amoah, Kossi A. Ayedze, Barbara Bailey, Katie G. Cannon, Noel Erskine, Dwight N. Hopkins, Simeon O. Ilesanmi, Laurenti Magesa, Madipoane Masenya, Takatso A. Mofokeng, Esther M. Mombo, Nyambura J. Njoroge, Jacob Olupona, Peter J. Paris, Anthony B. Pinn, Linda E. Thomas, Lewin L. Williams

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