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.
"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 t...
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| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 264 p. :; ill. |
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Table of 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.