Land of Stark Contrasts : Faith-Based Responses to Homelessness in the United States /

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An important new volume showcasing a wide range of faith-based responses to one of today's most pressing social issues, challenging us to expand our ways of understanding. Land of Stark Contrasts brings together the work of social scientists, ethicists, and theologians exploring the profound ro...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Blankenship, Paul H. (Contribuidor), Breen, Margaret (Contribuidor), Brown, Jeremy Phillip (Contribuidor), Brown, Jeremy (Contribuidor), Clarke, Sathianathan (Contribuidor), Coleman, John A. (Contribuidor), Dávila, María Teresa (Contribuidor), Fisher, Michael R. (Contribuidor), Granville Miller, Bruce (Contribuidor), Houston Blankenship, Paul (Contribuidor), Khalil, Nancy A. (Contribuidor), Khalil, Nancy (Contribuidor), Lawson, Lauren (Contribuidor), Mata, Roberto (Contribuidor), Mejido Costoya, Manuel (Contribuidor, Editor ), Miller, Bruce (Contribuidor), Spickard, James V. (Contribuidor), Spickard, James (Contribuidor), Stivers, Laura (Contribuidor), Teresa Dávila, María (Contribuidor), Valk Lawson, Lauren (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2021]
Temas:
Church work with the homeless > United States.
Ethics.
Politics.
Religion.
RELIGION / Christian Theology / Liberation.
Homelessness.
biblical hermeneutics.
community revitalization.
congregations.
constructive theology.
faith-based organizations.
homeless ministries.
housing insecurity.
human flourishing.
non-profit organizations.
public religion.
social ethics.
sociology of religion.
the common good.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • PART I Public Religion and Community Revitalization
  • Talking About Homelessness: Shifting Discourses and the Appeal to Religion in Amer i ca's Seventh- Largest City
  • Becoming More Effective Community Problem Solvers: Faith- Based Organizations, Civic Capacity, and the Homelessness Crisis in Puget Sound
  • Disenfranchising the Unhoused: Urban Redevelopment, the Criminalization of Homelessness, and the Peril of Prosperity Theology in Dallas and Beyond
  • Religious Responses to Homelessness in the San Francisco Bay Area: Addressing White Supremacy and Racism
  • Homelessness and Health in Seattle: Challenges and Opportunities of Faith- Based Services
  • PART II Religious Worldviews and the Common Good Re imagined
  • Homelessness and Coast Salish Spiritual Traditions: Cultural Resources for Programmatic Responses in British Columbia
  • In These United States, Homelessness Is Who You Are: Examining a Socially Constructed Category through the Lens of an Interfaith Encounter in Downtown Boston
  • Religion and Civic Activism Reconsidered: Situating Faith- Based Responses to Homelessness
  • On the Passionality of Exile in Medieval Kabbalah: An Invitation to Historicize Con temporary Religious and Public Discourses on Homelessness
  • PART III Theological Insights for Homeless Ministries
  • Wounds of Love: Spiritual Care and Homelessness in the Streets of Seattle
  • Making Spirits Whole: Homeless Ministries as a Tool for Integral Development
  • "And I Saw Googleville Descend from Heaven": Reading the New Jerusalem in Gentrified Latinx Communities of Silicon Valley
  • Offensive Wisdom: Homeless Neighbors, Bible Interpretation, and the Abode of God in Washington, D.C.
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contributors
  • Index

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