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Not by Faith Alone
Social Services, Social Justice, and Faith-Based Organizations in the United States
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2010
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This edited collection provides an in-depth ethnographic study of faith-based development organizations in the United States, shining a much needed critical light onto these organizations and their role in the United States by exploring the varied ways that faith-based organizations attempt to mend the fissures and mitigate the effects of neoliberal capitalism, poverty, and the social service sector on the poor and powerless. In doing so, Not by Faith Alone generates provocative and sophisticated analyses-grounded in empirical case studies-of such topics as the meaning of "faith-based" development, evaluations of faith-based versus secular approaches, the influence of faith-orientation on program formulation and delivery, and examinations of faith-based organizations' impacts on structural inequality and poverty alleviation. Taken together, the chapters in this volume demonstrate the vital importance of ethnography for understanding the particular role of faith-based agencies in development. The contributors argue for an understanding of faith-based development that moves beyond either dismissing or uncritically supporting faith-based initiatives. Instead, contributors demonstrate the importance of grounded analysis of the specific discourses, practices, and beliefs that imbue faith-based development with such power and reveal both the promise and the limitations of this particular vehicle of service delivery.
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Copyright year
2010
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-4658-3
ISBN-Online
978-1-4616-3394-5
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
264
Product type
Edited Book
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Chapter 1: Social Services, Social Justice, and Faith-Based Organizations in the United States: An Introduction No access Pages 1 - 32
Chapter 2: A Theology of Presence: Faith Partnerships with U.S. Public Schools No access Pages 33 - 50
Chapter 3: On the Border: Faith-Based Initiatives and Pentecostal Praxis in Brownsville, Texas No access Pages 51 - 68
Chapter 4: Faith-Based Development and Community Renaissance: Tradition and Transformation in South Memphis No access Pages 69 - 90
Chapter 5: Bricks without Straw: Faith-Based Responses to Homelessness in the Hostile City No access Pages 91 - 106
Chapter 6: Muslims, Medicine, and Mercy: Free Clinics in Southern California No access Pages 107 - 128
Chapter 7: Culture, History, and Discourse at Tree of Life: A Faith-Based Relief Agency in Mission, South Dakota No access Pages 129 - 144
Chapter 8: What's Islam Got to Do with It? American Pluralism, Ethnographic Sensibilities, and Faith-Based Refugee Resettlement in Hartford, Connecticut No access Pages 145 - 164
Chapter 9: Translating Religious Traditions into Service: Lessons from the Faith and Organizations Project No access Pages 165 - 186
Chapter 10: Religious Organizational Identity and Environmental Demands No access Pages 187 - 206
Chapter 11: "Bio-pistis": Conversion of Heroin Addicts in Prisons, on Medicine, and with God No access Pages 207 - 230
Chapter 12: Straight from the Devil: Contours of "the Public" in American Public Health No access Pages 231 - 254
