Thematic Collection in Palgrave Communication
Editors: Dr Gottfried Schweiger and Dr Helmut P Gaisbauer Prof Clemens Sedmak
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

This is a rolling article collection and as such submissions/proposals will be welcome throughout 2018. This special issue is run in collaboration with the 2017 Salzburg Conference on Interdisciplinary Poverty Research, organized by the Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research of the University of Salzburg.
Poverty and religion are interrelated in different ways. On the one hand, for various religious traditions poverty is both an aspect of a particular faithful life and giving to the poor is seen as a religious duty.
On the other hand, religion plays an important role in the life of people living in poverty. We invite papers, from a range of disciplinary perspectives, that consider the following overarching question: how can religion be used as a vehicle to overcome structures of poverty, and how does it sometimes hinder such processes?

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