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Title Land of Stark Contrasts Faith-Based Responses to Homelessness in the United States / Manuel Mejido Costoya, editor
Published New York : Fordham University Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (292 p.)
Contents Part I. Public religion and community revitalization. talking about homelessness: shifting discourses and the appeal to religion in America's seventh-larges city / James V. Spickard -- Becoming more effective community problem solvers: faith-based organizations, civic capacity, and the homelessness crisis in Puget sound / Manuel Mejido Costoya and Margaret Breen -- Disenfranchising the unhoused: urban redevelopment, the criminalization of homelessness, and the peril of prosperity theology in Dallas and beyond / Michael R. Fisher, Jr. -- Religious responses to homelessness in the San Francisco Bay area: addressing White supremacy and racism / Laura Stivers -- Homelessness and health in Seattle: challenges and opportunities of faith-based services / Lauren Valk Lawson -- Part II. Religious worldviews and the common good reimagined / Bruce Granville Miller -- In these United States, homelessness is who you are: examining a socially constructed category through the lens of an interfaith encounter in downtown Boston / Nancy A. Khalil -- Religion and civic activism reconsidered: situating faith-based responses to homelessness / John A. Coleman, S. J. -- On the passionality of exile in Medieval Kabbalah: an invitation to historicize contemporary religious and public discourses on homelessness / Jeremy Phillip Brown -- Part III. Theological insights for homeless ministry. Wounds of love: spiritual care and homelessness in the streets of Seattle. Paul Houston Blankenship -- Making spirits whole: homeless ministries as a tool for integral development / Maria Teresa Davila -- "And I saw Googleville descend from heaven": reading the New Jerusalem in gentrified Latinx communities of Silicon Valley / Roberto Mata -- Offensive wisdom: homeless neighbors, Bible interpretation, and the abode of God in Washington, D. C. / Sathianathan Clarke
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Church work with the homeless.
Church work with the homeless
Form Electronic book
Author Mejido Costoya, Manuel
Blankenship, Paul H
Breen, Margaret
Brown, Jeremy
Clarke, Sathianathan
Coleman, John A
Dávila, María Teresa
Fisher, Michael R
Khalil, Nancy
Lawson, Lauren
ISBN 0823293971
9780823293971