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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 problems 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 he socio-economic causes and consequences of involuntary poverty, and provided concrete Franciscan contributions to poverty as an alternative and forward-looking path.

Co-Published with Aschendorff Verlag

Willem Marie Speelman, Angelica Hilsebein, Bernd Schmies, Thomas M. Shcimmel

ISBN 978-1-57659-420-9 (hardcover)

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