The beloved community : how faith shapes social justice from the Civil Rights Movement to today / Charles Marsh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marsh, Charles, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social justice--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Social justice.

Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Civil rights.

Social justice--United States.

Civil rights movements--United States.

Civil rights movements.

Christian sociology--United States.

Christian sociology.

African Americans--Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity.

African Americans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Basic Books, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Beloved Community lays out an exuberant new vision for progressive Christianity and reclaims the centrality of faith in the quest for social justice and authentic community.

Contents:

Praise for The Beloved Community; Contents; INTRODUCTION: Souls on Fire; PART ONE; CHAPTER 1: From Church Budgets to Beloved Community: King in Montgomery; CHAPTER 2: In the Fields of the Lord: The God Movement in South Georgia; CHAPTER 3: A Theology for Radicals: The Rise and Fall of SNCC; PART TWO; CHAPTER 4: The Burdens of Perpetual Freedom: The Dream as Hallucination; CHAPTER 5: Between the Times; PART THREE; CHAPTER 6: Unfinished Business: John Perkins and the Radical Roots of Faith-Based Community Building; CHAPTER 7: Building Beloved Communities:Dispatches from the Quiet Revolution

CHAPTER 8: The Contours of an Activist Faith for the Twenty-first CenturyAcknowledgments; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-465-04415-8

0-7867-2219-3

OCLC:

792688541