Working faith : faith-based organizations and urban social justice / Paul Cloke, Justin Beaumont and Andrew Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cloke, Paul, author.

Beaumont, Justin, author.

Williams, Andrew, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social justice--Europe.

Social justice.

Religious institutions--Europe.

Religious institutions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Milton Keynes, England : Paternoster, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Each chapter of this important and innovative book narrates the inspiring story of how faith is the prime motivation for an organised response to social and political need in different contexts. This book tells the story of a number of different faith-based organizations based in different parts of Europe, but characterized by the same set of goals and aspirations to bring faith-inspired action into contexts of social injustice and marginalization in urban areas.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Contributors""; ""Faith in Action: Faith-based Organizations, Welfare and Politics in the Contemporary City""; ""Faith-based Action Against Poverty: Christians Against Poverty and Church Action on Poverty""; ""Practical Theology and Christian Responses to Drug Addiction""; ""Re-engaging With the Margins: The Salvation Army 614UK Network and Incarnational Praxis""; ""Urban Expression: Convictional Communities and Urban Social Justice""; ""Faith-based Youth Work in Local Communities: The Teenbridge Project""

""The July Project and Big Saturdays: a Church (St Paul�s, Salisbury, UK) in its Local Community""""Aid, Presence, Protest: Working Group, The Poor Side of the Netherlands/EVA""; ""Adventures at a Border Crossing: The Society for Diaconal Social Work in Rotterdam, The Netherlands""; ""Faith Community Works in Sweden""; ""Central Welfare Office of the Jews in Germany""; ""Endnotes""; ""Hospitality and Community after Christendom""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 29, 2014).

ISBN:

1-78078-311-6

OCLC:

891400199