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Yours the power : faith-based organizing in the USA / edited by Katie Day, Esther McIntosh and William Storrar.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boston, Mass. : Brill, 2013.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 153 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789004246010
  • 9004246010
Uniform titles:
  • International journal of public theology.
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Yours the power.DDC classification:
  • 234.2 23
LOC classification:
  • HV530 .Y68 2013eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Preface; 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; Notes on Contributors.
Summary: This unique 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. Originally published as issue 4 of Volume 6 (2012) of Brill's International Journal of Public Theology.

"Originally published as Volume 6(4) (2012), pp. 377-545, in Brill's International journal of public theology"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Preface; 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; Notes on Contributors.

This unique 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. Originally published as issue 4 of Volume 6 (2012) of Brill's International Journal of Public Theology.

Print version record.