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Life on the Breadline

Chris Shannahan
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injustice
liberation theology
politics
poverty
qualitative research

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  • ISBN 9780334063698
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 28 Nov 2025
  • Publisher: SCM Press
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Academic theology stands at a crossroads. Will it rise to the challenge and focus its energy on the development of a fieldwork-led theology of liberation that can resource the struggle to make poverty history?

Life on the Breadline represents the first fieldwork-based book by an academic theologian to identify, explore and analyse the spectrum of Christian responses to austerity-age poverty in the UK. Rooted in an interdisciplinary theoretical analysis of multidimensional poverty, political discourse and extensive qualitative research, it develops a groundbreaking theological analysis of the impact of governmental austerity policies since the 2008 financial crash.

In Life on the Breadline, Chris Shannahan identifies and critiques a spectrum of Christian responses to poverty and sows the seeds of a new theology of liberation, demonstrating that the Church faces a Kairos moment in its engagement in the public sphere and its commitment to ‘transform structural injustice’.

BLOGPOST: Why do Christians engage with poverty? Q&A with Chris Shannahan on the SCM Press blog here.
About Chris Shannahan
Chris Shannahan is an interdisciplinary activist political theologian committed to the development of an austerity age theology of liberation that can resource the struggle to make poverty history. He works as a Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Birmingham, a Lecturer in Modern Theology at the University of Manchester and an Associate Professor of Political Theology at the Centre for Peace and Security at Coventry University. His recent three-year Life on the Breadline research project, which was funded by the ESRC, explored Christian responses to contemporary poverty and forms the basis for this book.

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