"Mark Warren's comprehensive case study of the Industrial Areas
Foundation is a major contribution to the growing literature on
coalition politics. Indeed, it is the best empirical study ever
written on multiracial collaboration to address social inequality.
Featuring careful and systematic analysis of rich data on local
organizing, "Dry Bones Rattling" will be ancinfluential book and is
must reading for those committed to revitalizing American democracy
through interracial political cooperation."--William Julius Wilson,
Harvard University
""Dry Bones Rattling" is timely, important, and inspiring.
Timely, because this study of the most successful faith-based
movement for social justice in America appears just as faith-based
social initiatives have reached the top of the national political
agenda. Important, because it is a deeply grounded contribution to
the rapidly growing field of social capital theory. Inspiring,
because by showing how civic malaise has been reversed in some of
the nation's most impoverished, ethnically divided settings, this
book should raise the aspirations of democratic reformers. Must
reading for social theorists and civic activists."--Robert Putnam,
Harvard University, author of "Making Democracy Work"
"Mark Warren has written a comprehensive and insightful analysis
of a profoundly important community-based movement. I have seen how
the Industrial Areas Foundation organizations this book examines
have revitalized communities across America, both physically and
spiritually. In San Antonio, the city I know best, I watched
Communities Organized for Public Service empower poor neighborhoods
and give voice to their concerns. Capable new leaders emerged and
thecity entered a new era of citizen democracy. "Dry Bones
Rattling" provides a compelling eyewitness account of the
transformations these organizations bring, showing us a sacred
force rooted in human dignity at work."--Henry Cisneros, Chairman
and CEO of American CityVista
""Dry Bones Rattling" is an important addition to the literature
on community organizations, populist politics, and--more than
anything--religion-based politics."--James Morone, Brown
University
"Original scholarship built on strong ethnographic work,
Warren's book is among the best of the outstanding scholarship on
the dilemmas of American democracy that has emerged in recent
years. As such it will be highly useful to specialists on
grassroots movements and on the intersection of religion and
politics in American life, as well as broadly useful to political
scientists and political sociologists. This is excellent scholarly
work on an important political phenomenon that until now has eluded
adequate scholarly attention."--Richard L. Wood, University of New
Mexico, author of "Faith in Action"
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