Land of Stark Contrasts : : Faith-Based Responses to Homelessness in the United States / / ed. by Manuel Mejido Costoya.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
• MitwirkendeR: Blankenship, Paul H.,; Breen, Margaret,; Brown, Jeremy Phillip,; Brown, Jeremy,; Clarke, Sathianathan,; Coleman, John A.,; Dávila, María Teresa,; Fisher, Michael R.,; Granville Miller, Bruce,; Houston Blankenship, Paul,; Khalil, Nancy A.,; Khalil, Nancy,; Lawson, Lauren,; Mata, Roberto,; Mejido Costoya, Manuel,; Miller, Bruce,; Spickard, James V.,; Spickard, James,; Stivers, Laura,; Teresa Dávila, María,; Valk Lawson, Lauren,
• HerausgeberIn: Mejido Costoya, Manuel,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.) :; 7 b/w illustrations

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 role of religion in understanding and responding to homelessness and housing insecurity in all corners of the United States—from Seattle, San Francisco, and Silicon Valley to Dallas and San Antonio to Washington, D.C., and Boston.Together, the essays of Land of Stark Contrasts chart intriguing ways forward for future initiatives to address the root causes of homelessness. In this way they are essential reading for practical theologians, congregational leaders, and faith-based nonprofit organizers exploring how to combine spiritual and material care for homeless individuals and other vulnerable populations. Social workers, nonprofit managers, and policy specialists seeking to understand how to partner better with faith-based organizations will also find the chapters in this volume an invaluable resource.Contributors include James V. Spickard, Manuel Mejido Costoya and Margaret Breen, Michael R. Fisher Jr., Laura Stivers, Lauren Valk Lawson, Bruce Granville Miller, Nancy A. Khalil, John A. Coleman, S.J., Jeremy Phillip Brown, Paul Houston Blankenship, María Teresa Dávila, Roberto Mata, and Sathianathan Clarke.Co-published with Seattle University’s Center for Religious Wisdom and World Affairs

Table of Contents

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