Religion and Poverty

Susan Crawford Sullivan is Professor of Sociology at the College of the Holy Cross, United States. She is the author of Living Faith: Everyday Religion and Mothers in Poverty (2011) and the co-editor of A Vision for Justice: Engaging Catholic Social Teaching on the College Campus (2014).Stephen Offutt is Associate Professor of Development Studies at Asbury Theological Seminary, United States. He is the author of Blood Entanglements: Evangelicals and Gangs in El Salvador (2023) and New Centers of Global Evangelicalism in Latin America and Africa (2015).Shariq Ahmed Siddiqui is Assistant Professor of Philanthropic Studies and Director of the Muslim Philanthropy Initiative at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, United States; co-editor in chief of the Journal on Muslim Philanthropy and Civil Society; and co-editor of Philanthropy in the Muslim World (2023).

• 1. Introduction: The Response of Monotheistic Religions to the Problem of Poverty 2. Religion, Poverty, and Philanthropy in the United States 3. Poverty and Religion Crossing Borders 4. Christianity and Poverty in the Global South and East 5. Islam, Poverty, and Philanthropy in the Global South 6. Conclusion