Yours the power
Subtitle: faith-based organizing in the USA
By: edited by Katie Day, Esther McIntosh and William Storrar
Publisher: Brill; BRILL
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 153
ISBN-13: 9789004246003; 9789004246010
Subjects: Faith-based human services
Other titles: International journal of public theology.
Description: Despite shifts in the religious landscape in North America - reflected in the significant increase in those with no religious affiliation and emptier pews across the religious spectrum--there has also been a rise in participation in faith-based grassroots organizations. People of faith are increasingly joining broad-based organizing efforts to seek social change in their communities, regions and country. This volume brings together the most current thinking on faith-based organizing from the perspective of theologians, social researchers and practitioners. The current state of faith based organizing is critically presented, as it has evolved from its roots in the mid-twentieth century into a context which raises new questions for its philosophical assumptions, methodology, and very future. Originally published as issue 4 of Volume 6 (2012) of Brill's 'International Journal of Public Theology'.
Notes: "Originally published as Volume 6(4) (2012), pp. 377-545, in Brill's International journal of public theology"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction  -- Katie Day; title: Interfaith community organizing : emerging theological and organizational challenges  -- Brad Fulton, Richard L. Wood; title: Receiving from the other : theology and grass-roots organizing  -- Mary McClintock Fulkerson; title: Churches unusual : worship and broad-based organizing in two Brooklyn congregations  -- Aarian Marshall; title: Leaders in faith-based organizing networks  -- Patti Daley, Ryan J. Bell, Anthony Banout, Jonathan Currie; title: Funding and teaching challenges facing faith-based organizing  -- Sheila Greeve Davaney, John Bowlin, Jarrett Kerbel, Elizabeth Valdez; title: Three public cultures  -- Michael Gecan; title: Pastors and flocks  -- Jeffrey Stout; title: Alinsky and Augustine : connecting organizing and theology -- Luke Bretherton.