RT Article
T1 The Violence of Poverty: Theology and Activism in an "Age of Austerity"
JF Political theology
VO 20
IS 3
SP 243
OP 261
A1 Shannahan, Chris 1962-
LA English
PB Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
YR 2019
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1667382411
AB Faith groups are in the front line of the struggle to defeat poverty in breadline Britain. Given their roots in local communities Churches and Christian NGOs are well-placed to challenge economic policies that have resulted in the spiraling of food poverty, homelessness, personal debt and child poverty. By framing poverty as a political choice, a form of structural violence and systemic sin this paper brings peace studies and political theology into a constructive dialogue. In the face of ongoing "austerity" the paper demonstrates that poverty represents a clear and present danger to the social fabric of the UK and argues that only a re-imagined interdisciplinary theology of liberation can provide academics and activists with the tools needed to defeat systemic poverty and the cultural violence upon which it rests.
K1 Poverty
K1 Activism
K1 Liberation Theology
K1 Peace Studies
DO 10.1080/1462317X.2018.1543820