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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