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Not by Faith Alone
Social Services, Social Justice, and Faith-Based Organizations in the United States
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Not by Faith Alone
Social Services, Social Justice, and Faith-Based Organizations in the United States
About this book
This edited collection provides an in-depth ethnographic study of faith-based development organizations in the United States, shining a much needed critical light onto these organizations and their role in the United States 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. In doing so, Not by Faith Alone generates provocative and sophisticated analyses-grounded in empirical case studies-of such topics as the meaning of "faith-based" development, evaluations of faith-based versus secular approaches, the influence of faith-orientation on program formulation and delivery, and examinations of faith-based organizations' impacts on structural inequality and poverty alleviation. Taken together, the chapters in this volume demonstrate the vital importance of ethnography for understanding the particular role of faith-based agencies in development. The contributors argue for an understanding of faith-based development that moves beyond either dismissing or uncritically supporting faith-based initiatives. Instead, contributors demonstrate the importance of grounded analysis of the specific discourses, practices, and beliefs that imbue faith-based development with such power and reveal both the promise and the limitations of this particular vehicle of service delivery.
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Yes, you can access Not by Faith Alone by Julie Adkins,Laurie A. Occhipinti,Tara Hefferan in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Theology & Religion & Religion. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Tables and Figures
- 1 Social Services, Social Justice, and Faith-Based Organizations in the United States: An Introduction
- 2 A Theology of Presence: Faith Partnerships with U.S. Public Schools
- 3 On the Border: Faith-Based Initiatives and Pentecostal Praxis in Brownsville, Texas
- 4 Faith-Based Development and Community Renaissance: Tradition and Transformation in South Memphis
- 5 Bricks without Straw: Faith-Based Responses to Homelessness in the Hostile City
- 6 Muslims, Medicine, and Mercy: Free Clinics in Southern California
- 7 Culture, History, and Discourse at Tree of Life: A Faith-Based Relief Agency in Mission, South Dakota
- 8 What’s Islam Got to Do with It? American Pluralism, Ethnographic Sensibilities, and Faith-Based Refugee Resettlement in Hartford, Connecticut
- 9 Translating Religious Traditions into Service: Lessons from the Faith and Organizations Project
- 10 Religious Organizational Identity and Environmental Demands
- 11 “Bio-pistis”: Conversion of Heroin Addicts in Prisons, on Medicine, and with God
- 12 Straight from the Devil: Contours of “the Public” in American Public Health
- Index
- About the Authors