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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.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social service--United States.
- Social service.
- Social justice--United States.
- Social justice.
- Religious institutions--United States.
- Religious institutions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (275 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-22823-3
- 1-283-61464-2
- 1-4616-3394-X
- 9786613927095
- OCLC:
- 855502364
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