Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Many scholars and citizens alike have counted on civic groups to create broad ties that bind society. Some hope that faith-based civic groups will spread their reach as government retreats. Yet few studies ask how, if at all, civic groups reach out to their wider community. Can religious groups--long central in civic America--create broad, empowering social ties in an unequal, diverse society? Over three years, Paul Lichterman studied nine liberal and conservative Protestant-based volunteering and advocacy projects in a mid-sized American city. He listened as these groups tried to create bridges with other community groups, social service agencies, and low-income people, just as the 1996 welfare reforms were taking effect. Counter to long-standing arguments, Lichterman discovered that powerful customs of interaction inside the groups often stunted external ties and even shaped religion's impact on the groups. Comparing groups, he found that successful bridges outward depend on group customs which invite reflective, critical discussion about a group's place amid surrounding groups and institutions. Combining insights from Alexis de Tocqueville, John Dewey, and Jane Addams with contemporary sociology, Elusive Togetherness addresses enduring questions about civic and religious life that elude the popular "social capital" concept. To create broad civic relationships, groups need more than the right religious values, political beliefs, or resources. They must learn new ways of being groups.

Small groups --- Associations, institutions, etc. --- Voluntarism --- Social action --- Religion and social problems --- Social problems and religion --- Social problems --- Religious aspects. --- Religious aspects

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians has been ongoing since the creation of the state of Israel, a conflict revolving around land-ownership, water politics, human rights, and religious rights. Shalom/Salaam/Peace examines the realities of life in contemporary Israel/Palestine, with its politics, wars, security wall, settlements and ongoing struggles. Having established the historical, scriptural and theological context behind the present situation, the book presents key figures who have promoted peace and justice and explores liberation theology as a way of bringing peace in Israel/Palestine. Combining the history of liberation theology with its lived reality in Israel/Palestine today, Shalom/Salaam/Peace is an illuminating resource for students and scholars of politics and religion.

Arab-Israeli conflict --- Religion and social problems --- Liberation theology --- Theology of liberation --- Theology, Doctrinal --- Kairos documents --- Philosophy of liberation --- Social action --- Social problems and religion --- Social problems --- Religious aspects --- Judaism. --- Christianity. --- Islam.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Explore the relationship between faith-based programs, religion, and offender rehabilitation! This book reports on current research from several disciplines to help the reader understand the nature and impact of the relationship between faith-based programs, religion, and offender rehabilitation. Religion, the Community, and the Rehabilitation of Criminal Offenders is a unique resource?there has been very little research published on this important topic. President Bush's faith-based initiative recognized that religion plays a role in the justice system and corrections that i

Criminals --- Religion and social problems. --- Religious work with prisoners. --- Prisoners --- Social action --- Social problems and religion --- Social problems --- Reform of criminals --- Rehabilitation of criminals --- Corrections --- Alternatives to imprisonment --- Rehabilitation. --- Religious aspects --- Rehabilitation

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

The world of early Christians was not a world lived in texts; it was a world saturated with material reality and concerns: what, where and when to eat or drink; how to present oneself in the space of bodily life and that of death; how to move from one place to another; what impacted status or the adjudication of legal charges. All these and more controlled so much of life in the ancient world. The Christians were not immune from the impact of these realities. Sometimes they absorbed their surrounds; sometimes they quite explicitly rejected the material practices bearing in on them; frequently they modified the practice and the rationale to create a significant Christian alternative. The collection of essays in this volume come from a range of international scholars who, for all their different interests and critical commitments, are yet united in treasuring research into the Greek and Roman worlds in which Christians sought to make their way. They offer these essays in honor of one who has made a lifetime's work in mining ancient material culture to extract nuggets of insight into early Christian dining practices--Dennis E. Smith. Features: Rich examples of method in the utilization of ancient material culture for biblical interpretation ; Thirteen essays with a response from Dennis E. Smith ; Maps, diagrams, and plates. (Publisher).

Religion and politics. --- Christians --- Material culture --- Religion and social problems. --- Religion, Prehistoric. --- Prehistoric religion --- Social action --- Social problems and religion --- Social problems --- Culture --- Folklore --- Technology --- Religious adherents --- Political science --- Politics, Practical --- Politics and religion --- Religion --- Religions --- Religious aspects --- Christians. --- Political aspects --- Church history --- Eglise --- Culture matérielle --- Histoire --- Aspect religieux --- 30-600 --- Greece --- Rome --- Grèce --- Greece. --- Rome (Empire) --- Religion. --- Antiquities. --- Antiquités. --- Australian --- Early Church Period --- Primitive and Early Church Period --- Rim --- Roman Empire --- Roman Republic --- Romi (Empire) --- Byzantine Empire --- Italy --- al-Yūnān --- Ancient Greece --- Ellada --- Ellas --- Ellēnikē Dēmokratia --- Elliniki Dimokratia --- Grčija --- Grecia --- Gret͡sii͡ --- Griechenland --- Hellada --- Hellas --- Hellenic Republic --- Hellēnikē Dēmokratia --- Kingdom of Greece --- République hellénique --- Royaume de Grèce --- Vasileion tēs Hellados --- Xila --- Yaṿan --- Yūnān

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

social sciences --- religion --- religious education --- religious life --- Religion and social problems --- Mysticism --- Indonesia --- Religion --- Dark night of the soul --- Mystical theology --- Theology, Mystical --- Spiritual life --- Negative theology --- Social action --- Social problems and religion --- Social problems --- Religious aspects --- United States of Indonesia --- Republic of the United States of Indonesia --- Republik Indonesia Serikat --- R.I. (Republik Indonesia) --- RI (Republik Indonesia) --- Indonesië --- Indonezii︠a︡ --- PDRI (Pemerintah Darurat Republik Indonesia) --- Pemerintah Darurat Republik Indonesia --- Republik Indonesia --- Yinni --- Republic of Indonesia --- Republiek van Indonesië --- إندونيسيا --- Indūnīsīyā --- جمهورية إندونيسيا --- Jumhūrīyah Indūnīsīyā --- Republica d'Indonesia --- Indonezia --- Endonèsie --- İndoneziya --- İndoneziya Respublikası --- Інданезія --- Indanezii︠a︡ --- Рэспубліка Інданезія --- Rėspublika Indanezii︠a︡ --- Indonezija --- Republika Indonezija --- Индонезия --- Република Индонезия --- Republika Indonezii︠a︡ --- Indonesya --- Induonezėjė --- インドネシア --- Indoneshia --- インドネシア共和国 --- Indoneshia Kyōwakoku --- Dutch East Indies --- Mysticism. --- Religion. --- Religion and social problems. --- Indonesia. --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- God --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- Indanezii͡ --- Indonesi --- Indonezii͡ --- Indūnīsīy --- Induonezėj --- Jumhūrīyah Indūnīsīy --- PDRI --- R.I. --- Republiek van Indonesi --- Republika Indonezii͡ --- Rėspublika Indanezii͡ --- RI --- Dutch East Indies (Territory under Japanese occupation, 1942-1945)