Poverty and Prejudice

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Freedom of religion and belief is crucial to any sustainable development process, yet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) pay little attention to religious inequalities. This book offers a comprehensive overview of how efforts to achieve SDGs can be enhanced by paying greater attention to freedom of religion and belief. In particular, it illustrates how poverty is often a direct result of religious prejudice and how religious identity can shape a person's job prospects, their children's education and the quality of public services they receive. Drawing on evidence from Asia, the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa, the book foregrounds the lived experiences of marginalized communities as well as researchers and non-state actors.

Mariz Tadros is Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex. Philip Mader is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex. Kathryn Cheeseman is Senior Project Support Officer-CREID at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex.