People who participate in debates about the causes and cures of poverty often speak from religious conviction. But those convictions are rarely made explicit or
A Ghanaian scholar of religion argues that poverty is a particularly complex subject in traditional African cultures, where holistic worldviews unite life’s m
This open access book draws the big picture of how population change interplays with politics across the world from 1990 to 2040. Leading social scientists from
This book offers a timely and compelling look at religion and poverty, focusing primarily on the two largest world religions, Christianity and Islam, and consid
This volume reveals how religion interfaces with inequality in different African contexts. Some contributors undertake detailed analyses of how religion creates