Armut als Problem und Armut als Weg

Poverty as Problem and as Path

edited by Bernd Schmies, Willem Marie Speelman, Angelica Hilsebein and Thomas Schimmel

Book cover: Armut als Problem und Armut als Weg

Extent: 504 pages

Publisher: Aschendorff Verlag

Subjects: Religious Studies, Social Sciences 

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(February 2018)

ISBN: 9783402133026

Price: $89.00

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Poverty is a problem that challenges every period, every society, and every religion. Nowadays, we regard poverty as a global and complex problem as more and more people are affected by involuntary poverty. In contrast to this the Franciscan way of life chooses a voluntary radical poverty. The two-part international conference in Munster and Utrecht picked out the socio-economic causes and consequences of involuntary poverty, and provided concrete Franciscan contributions to poverty as an alternative and forward-looking path.


Poverty is a problem that challenges every period, every society, and every religion. Nowadays, we regard poverty as a global and complex problem as more and more people are affected by involuntary poverty. In contrast to this the Franciscan way of life chooses a voluntary radical poverty. The two-part international conference in Munster and Utrecht picked out the socio-economic causes and consequences of involuntary poverty, and provided concrete Franciscan contributions to poverty as an alternative and forward-looking path

  • Edited by Angelica Hilsebein
  • Edited by Thomas Schimmel
  • Edited by Bernd Schmies
  • Edited by Willem Marie Speelman