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Not by faith alone social services, social justice, and faith-based organizations in the United States /

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"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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Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Adkins, Julie, 1960-, Occhipinti, Laurie A., 1968-, Hefferan, Tara, 1972-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2010.
Subjects:
Social service > United States.
Social justice > United States.
Religious institutions > United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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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.

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