More than bread [[electronic resource] ] : ethnography of a soup kitchen / / by Irene Glasser

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910815225603321
• Autore: Glasser Irene
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, [2010], c1988
• ISBN: 0-8173-8393-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (201 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.5/83
• Soggetti: Soup kitchens - United States; Poor - United States - Social conditions; Poverty - Psychological aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The contemporary soup kitchen -- A historical perspective -- The tabernacle soup kitchen -- Field study methods -- Profile of the guest population -- Loneliness -- An ambience of acceptance -- Social networks and social support -- Self-help in the dining room : guests as counselors -- Staff philosophy and the concept of ministry -- Concluding thoughts -- Epilogue.
• Sommario/riassunto: More Than Bread examines life in the dining room of the Tabernacle Soup Kitchen, located in Middle City in a New England state. What happens when one hundred guests, which include single mothers, drug addicts, alcoholics, the mentally ill, and the chronically unemployed, representing diverse age groups and ethnicities, come together in the dining room for several hours each day? Irene Glasser challenges the popular assumption that soup kitchens function primarily to provide food for the hungry by refocusing our attention on the social aspects of the dining room. The soup kitchen