- Hardcover: 334 pages
- Publisher: OUP USA (3 Nov 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0195161556
- ISBN-13: 978-0195161557
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16 x 3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,721,220 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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
"Heidi Unruh and Ronald Sider explore and map a social ministry landscape that is more complex-- and more interesting--than many realize. If you are confused by debates over faith-based initiatives, if you yearn for more than superficial stereotypes of church-based social services, or if you simply want to know all the varieties of social ministry present within American Christianity, you will find this book
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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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The meal was spread on a table at the front of the room at Koinonia Christian Community Church of God in Christ, buffet style: barbecued turkey wings and baked chicken, mixed vegetables, potato salad, rice and gravy, corn bread and white bread, donuts, bananas, and juice. Read the first page
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The meal was spread on a table at the front of the room at Koinonia Christian Community Church of God in Christ, buffet style: barbecued turkey wings and baked chicken, mixed vegetables, potato salad, rice and gravy, corn bread and white bread, donuts, bananas, and juice. Read the first page
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I would not recommend this book to anyone. First of all, if you don't know the meaning of what I call hundred-dollar words this is a waste of time. The only reason I bought it was that it was required reading for a class I was taking. The author uses many many quotes from other sources and inserts their opinion. Its not a pleasant read. Save your money.
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