Includes bibliographical references and index.

An 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.