Africa’s Faith Based Organizations in Transformational Development. Assessing Poverty Reduction Strategies and Its Implications for Pastoral Theology

      Аннотация: The purpose of this book is to explore the nature, effectiveness and implications of Christian Faith Based Organisations’ (CFBOs) holistic transformational development strategies undertaken for poverty reduction in the Mbeere Districts of Kenya. The ongoing crisis of poverty in Mbeere-land of Kenya in spite of the development activities of the CFBOs and numerous development organisations is the critical issue in this book. Through research, it has substantially examined the general assumption that the grassroots locations of CFBOs in African rural communities’ can provide better bases from which poverty reduction strategies can be effectively addressed. In a nutshell, the book assesses the effectiveness, gaps and limitations of CFBOs’ development strategies with the object of recommending specific reforms or research on what needs to be improved upon, dropped or added so as to ensure improved performance in poverty reduction. It is a critical text book for all students of theology and development, religion and society among others. It is a necessary reading for Universities, Seminaries, Colleges, Schools and all development practitioners across the continents.

Ключевые слова: Human Development, transformational development, poverty in Mbeere, Poverty Reduction as a Development Theory, Complexities of Poverty, Modern Concepts of Poverty, Monetary Poverty, Non Monetary Poverty Concepts, Poverty from the Social Exclusion Approach, Marxist and Neo-Marxist Approaches to the Understanding of Poverty, Training for Church Ministry and Theological Education, Compassion International Kenya, World Vision in Kenya, Anglican Development Services, Christian Community Services, Kenya Anglican Men Association in Mbeere Diocese, Mothers Union in Mbeere Diocese, Anglican Church of Kenya in Diocese of Mbeere in Embu County, Poverty and The life and Ministry of Jesus, Paradigms of Poverty, poverty in the Old Testament and New Testament