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008 090729s2009 ncu b 001 0 eng c
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020 $a9780822343561 (cloth : alk. paper)
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050 00 $aBR1360$b.R45 2009
082 00 $a261.8/325096$222
245 00 $aReligion and poverty :$bPan-African perspectives /$cPeter J. Paris, ed. ; foreword by Jacob Olupona.
260 $aDurham :$bDuke University Press,$c2009.
263 $a0912
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aAn ethical mapping of the transatlantic slave trade / Katie G. Cannon, United States -- Feminization of poverty across Pan-African societies : The Church's response; alleviative or emancipatory? / Barbara Bailey, Jamaica -- The informal economy and the religion of global capital / Takatso A. Mofokeng, South Africa -- A theological perspective on the effects of globalization on poverty in Pan-African -- Contexts / Lewin L. Williams, Jamaica -- African traditional religion and the concept of poverty / Elizabeth Amoah, Ghana -- Religion and poverty : ritual and empowerment in Africa and the African diaspora / Linda E. Thomas and Dwight N. Hopkins, United States -- The Bible and poverty in African Pentecostal Christianity : The Bosadi (Womanhood) approach / Madipoane Masenya, South Africa -- The struggle for full humanity in poverty-stricken Kenya / Nyambura J. Njoroge, Kenya and Geneva -- Poverty among African people and the ambiguous role of Christian thought / Kossi A. Ayedze, Togo -- Religion and materiality : the case of poverty alleviation / Esther M. Mombo, Kenya -- Warm bodies, cold currency : a study of religion's response to poverty / Anthony B. Pinn, United States -- Nyerere on Ujamaa and Christianity as transforming forces in society / Laurenti Magesa, Tanzania -- Caribbean issues : the Caribbean and African American Churches' response / Noel Leo Erskine, Jamaica and United States -- Africa's poverty, human rights, and a just society / Simeon O. Ilesanmi, Nigeria and United States -- Self-initiation : a necessary principle in the African struggle to abolish poverty / Peter J. Paris, Canada and United States.
650 0 $aChristianity$zAfrica.
650 0 $aChurch and social problems$zAfrica.
650 0 $aReligion and civil society$zAfrica.
650 0 $aPoverty$zAfrica.
700 1 $aParis, Peter J.,$d1933-
700 1 $aOlupọna, Jacob Obafẹmi Kẹhinde.