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.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Adkins, Julie, 1960-; Occhipinti, Laurie A., 1968-; Hefferan, Tara, 1972-; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Physical Description: ix, 264 p. :; ill.
• Other title: Social services, social justice, and faith-based organizations in the United States : an introduction /; A theology of presence : faith partnerships with U.S. public schools /; On the border : faith-based initiatives and pentecostal praxis in Brownsville, Texas /; Faith-based development and community renaissance : tradition and transformation in South Memphis /; Bricks without straw : faith-based responses to homelessness in the hostile city /; Muslims, medicine, and mercy : free clinics in southern California /; Culture, history, and discourse at Tree of Life, a faith-based relief agency in Mission, South Dakota /; What's Islam got to do with it? : American pluralism, ethnographic sensibilities, and faith-based refugee resettlement in Hartford, Connecticut /; Translating religious traditions into service : lessons from the Faith and Organizations Project /; Religious organizational identity and environmental demands /; "Bio-pistis": conversion of a heroin addicts in prisons, on medicine, and with God /; Straight from the devil : contours of "the public" in American public health /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9780739146583 (cloth alk. paper); 0739146580 (cloth alk. paper); 9781461633945 (electronic bk.)
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Julie Adkins, Laurie Occhipinti, and Tara Hefferan.

"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.