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UNINA9910461870303321 |
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Titolo |
Not by faith alone [[electronic resource] ] : social services, social justice, and faith-based organizations in the United States / / edited by Julie Adkins, Laurie Occhipinti, and Tara Hefferan |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Lanham, Md., : Lexington Books, c2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-61464-2 |
1-4616-3394-X |
9786613927095 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (275 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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AdkinsJulie <1960-> |
OcchipintiLaurie A. <1968-> |
HefferanTara <1972-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Social service - United States |
Social justice - United States |
Religious institutions - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 the effects of neoliberal capitalism, poverty, and the social service sector on the poor and powerless"--P. [4] of cover. |
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