Yours the power : faith-based organizing in the USA /
Yours the power : faith-based organizing in the USA /
edited by Katie Day, Esther McIntosh and William Storrar.
- xii, 153 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
"Originally published as Volume 6(4) (2012), pp. 377-545, in Brill's International journal of public theology"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction / Interfaith community organizing : emerging theological and organizational challenges / Receiving from the other : theology and grass-roots organizing / Churches unusual : worship and broad-based organizing in two Brooklyn congregations / Leaders in faith-based organizing networks / Funding and teaching challenges facing faith-based organizing / Three public cultures / Pastors and flocks / Alinsky and Augustine : connecting organizing and theology / Katie Day -- Brad Fulton, Richard L. Wood -- Mary McClintock Fulkerson -- Aarian Marshall -- Patti Daley, Ryan J. Bell, Anthony Banout, Jonathan Currie -- Sheila Greeve Davaney, John Bowlin, Jarrett Kerbel, Elizabeth Valdez -- Michael Gecan -- Jeffrey Stout -- Luke Bretherton.
Despite shifts in the religious landscape in North America - reflected in the significant increase in those with no religious affiliation and emptier pews across the religious spectrum--there has also been a rise in participation in faith-based grassroots organizations. People of faith are increasingly joining broad-based organizing efforts to seek social change in their communities, regions and country. This volume brings together the most current thinking on faith-based organizing from the perspective of theologians, social researchers and practitioners. The current state of faith based organizing is critically presented, as it has evolved from its roots in the mid-twentieth century into a context which raises new questions for its philosophical assumptions, methodology, and very future.
9789004246003 (paperback) 9004246002 (paperback)
2012956004
Faith-based human services--United States.
HV530 / .Y68 2013
270
"Originally published as Volume 6(4) (2012), pp. 377-545, in Brill's International journal of public theology"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction / Interfaith community organizing : emerging theological and organizational challenges / Receiving from the other : theology and grass-roots organizing / Churches unusual : worship and broad-based organizing in two Brooklyn congregations / Leaders in faith-based organizing networks / Funding and teaching challenges facing faith-based organizing / Three public cultures / Pastors and flocks / Alinsky and Augustine : connecting organizing and theology / Katie Day -- Brad Fulton, Richard L. Wood -- Mary McClintock Fulkerson -- Aarian Marshall -- Patti Daley, Ryan J. Bell, Anthony Banout, Jonathan Currie -- Sheila Greeve Davaney, John Bowlin, Jarrett Kerbel, Elizabeth Valdez -- Michael Gecan -- Jeffrey Stout -- Luke Bretherton.
Despite shifts in the religious landscape in North America - reflected in the significant increase in those with no religious affiliation and emptier pews across the religious spectrum--there has also been a rise in participation in faith-based grassroots organizations. People of faith are increasingly joining broad-based organizing efforts to seek social change in their communities, regions and country. This volume brings together the most current thinking on faith-based organizing from the perspective of theologians, social researchers and practitioners. The current state of faith based organizing is critically presented, as it has evolved from its roots in the mid-twentieth century into a context which raises new questions for its philosophical assumptions, methodology, and very future.
9789004246003 (paperback) 9004246002 (paperback)
2012956004
Faith-based human services--United States.
HV530 / .Y68 2013
270