Saving Souls, Serving Society: Understanding the Faith Factor in Church-Based Social Ministry - Hardcover

Unruh, Heidi Rolland; Sider, Ronald J.

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ISBN 10: 0195161556 ISBN 13: 9780195161557

Verlag: OUP USA, 2005

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Book by Heidi Rolland Unruh Ronald J Sider

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Whereas most scholars focus on the social service side of faith-based social services, Unruh and Sider integrate the faith factor and evangelism in understanding congregational social services. They convincingly demonstrate that one cannot understand faith-based social services without understanding its faith dimensions. This is a most innovative and groundbreaking book that is a must for all those concerned with the faith-based initiative and congregational studies. (Ram A. Cnaan, author of The Invisible Caring Hand: American Congregations and the Provision of Welfare)

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As public funding for social services has been slashed, there has arisen an unprecedented interest in the potential (and dangers) of faith-based institutions as agents of social change. Now, as President Bush begins his second term, he has placed government funding of faith-based programs at the top of his domestic agenda. What distinguishes church-based from secular social activism? What is particularly religious about church-based social services? How do churches express their religious identity in the context of social services, and how does this affect their access to resources and partners? This book, based on a Lilly-funded study of fifteen Philadelphia churches with active outreach, seeks to answer these and other pressing questions surrounding this important and controversial issue. Providing a far more objective understanding of faith-based initiatives than previously available, this study will be of interest not only to scholars of sociology of religion, social work, and social policy, but to denominational leaders, non-profit professionals, social policy analysts, community development practitioners, and others with the common goal of aiding struggling communities.

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• Verlag: OUP USA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0195161556
• ISBN 13: 9780195161557
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 356