Not by faith alone social services, social justice, and faith-based organizations in the United States / [electronic resource] :
edited by Julie Adkins, Laurie Occhipinti, and Tara Hefferan.
- Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2010.
- ix, 264 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Social services, social justice, and faith-based organizations in the United States : an introduction / A theology of presence : faith partnerships with U.S. public schools / On the border : faith-based initiatives and pentecostal praxis in Brownsville, Texas / Faith-based development and community renaissance : tradition and transformation in South Memphis / Bricks without straw : faith-based responses to homelessness in the hostile city / Muslims, medicine, and mercy : free clinics in southern California / Culture, history, and discourse at Tree of Life, a faith-based relief agency in Mission, South Dakota / What's Islam got to do with it? : American pluralism, ethnographic sensibilities, and faith-based refugee resettlement in Hartford, Connecticut / Translating religious traditions into service : lessons from the Faith and Organizations Project / Religious organizational identity and environmental demands / "Bio-pistis": conversion of a heroin addicts in prisons, on medicine, and with God / Straight from the devil : contours of "the public" in American public health / Julie Adkins, Laurie Occhipinti, and Tara Hefferan -- Leah Mundell -- Ethan P. Sharp -- Katherine Lambert-Pennington and Julie Pfromm -- Julie Adkins -- Lance D. Laird and Wendy Cadge -- Janet G. Brashler -- Janet Bauer and Andrea Chivakos -- Jo Anne Schneider, Laura Polk, and Isaac Morrison -- Scott T. Fitzgerald -- Timoteo Rodriguez -- William Garriott.
"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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Social service--United States. Social justice--United States. Religious institutions--United States.