Social service politics in the United States and Britain / Williard C. Richan.
Williard C. Richan
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שפה נוכחית
Not by faith alone
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"This edited collection provides an in-depth ethnographic study of faith-based development organizations in the United States, shining a critical light onto these organizations and their role by exploring the varied ways that faith-based organizations attempt to mend the fissures and mitigate the effects of neoliberal capitalism, poverty, and the social service sector on the poor and powerless"--P. [4] of cover.
| Title |
Not by faith alone : social services, social justice, and faith-based organizations in the United States / edited by Julie Adkins, Laurie Occhipinti, and Tara Hefferan. |
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| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Publisher |
Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books |
| Creation Date |
c2010 |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record. Includes bibliographical references and index. English |
| Content |
Social services, social justice, and faith-based organizations in the United States : an introduction / Julie Adkins, Laurie Occhipinti, and Tara Hefferan -- A theology of presence : faith partnerships with U.S. public schools / Leah Mundell -- On the border : faith-based initiatives and pentecostal praxis in Brownsville, Texas / Ethan P. Sharp -- Faith-based development and community renaissance : tradition and transformation in South Memphis / Katherine Lambert-Pennington and Julie Pfromm -- Bricks without straw : faith-based responses to homelessness in the hostile city / Julie Adkins -- Muslims, medicine, and mercy : free clinics in southern California / Lance D. Laird and Wendy Cadge -- Culture, history, and discourse at Tree of Life, a faith-based relief agency in Mission, South Dakota / Janet G. Brashler -- What's Islam got to do with it? : American pluralism, ethnographic sensibilities, and faith-based refugee resettlement in Hartford, Connecticut / Janet Bauer and Andrea Chivakos -- Translating religious traditions into service : lessons from the Faith and Organizations Project / Jo Anne Schneider, Laura Polk, and Isaac Morrison -- Religious organizational identity and environmental demands / Scott T. Fitzgerald -- "Bio-pistis": conversion of a heroin addicts in prisons, on medicine, and with God / Timoteo Rodriguez -- Straight from the devil : contours of "the public" in American public health / William Garriott. |
| Extent |
1 online resource (275 p.) |
| Language |
English |
| National Library system number |
997010720379305171 |
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