Religion and Poverty Pan-African Perspectives

includes index and biblioraphy

1.The roots and impact of Poverty
An ethical mapping of the Transatlantic slave trade ......19
Feminization of poverty across pan-african societies: The church`s Response- alleviative or emancipatory?........39
2. Challenges of the GLobla and Informal Economies
The informal economy and the Religion of Global capital ....69
A theological Perspective on the Effects of Globalization on poverty in pan-african contexts..........88
3. Religious strategies for Liberating the poor
African traditional religion and the Concept of poverty .......111
Religion an Poverty : Ritual and empowerment in Africa and the african diaspora ......128
The bible and poverty in African Pentacostal Christianity : The bosadi Approach.......152
The struggle for full humanity in Poverty-Stricken Kenya ...........166
4. The ambiguous relation of Religion and poverty
Poverty among African people and the Ambiguous role of Christian thought ..............193
Religion and materiality: The case of poverty alleviation ...........213
Warm bodies, cold currency : A study of religioun`s Response to poverty.............228
5. Practical Theories for combating poverty
Nyerere on Ujamaa and Christianity as transforming forces in Society...............249
Caribbean issues: The Caribbean and African American Churcher` response .....................272
Africa`s Poverty, Human rights, and a Just society...........293
Self-Initiation: A necessary principle in the African Struggle to abolish poverty.................317