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This edited collection provides an in-depth ethnographic study of
faith-based development organizations in the United States, shining
a much needed critical light onto these organizations and their
role in the United States by exploring the varied ways that
faith-based organizations attempt to mend the fissures and mitigate
the effects of neoliberal capitalism, poverty, and the social
service sector on the poor and powerless. In doing so, Not by Faith
Alone generates provocative and sophisticated analyses-grounded in
empirical case studies-of such topics as the meaning of
"faith-based" development, evaluations of faith-based versus
secular approaches, the influence of faith-orientation on program
formulation and delivery, and examinations of faith-based
organizations' impacts on structural inequality and poverty
alleviation. Taken together, the chapters in this volume
demonstrate the vital importance of ethnography for understanding
the particular role of faith-based agencies in development. The
contributors argue for an understanding of faith-based development
that moves beyond either dismissing or uncritically supporting
faith-based initiatives. Instead, contributors demonstrate the
importance of grounded analysis of the specific discourses,
practices, and beliefs that imbue faith-based development with such
power and reveal both the promise and the limitations of this
particular vehicle of service delivery.
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Castle Ivy
Julie Adkins
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R331
Discovery Miles 3 310
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This edited volume illuminates critical research issues through the
particular lens of homelessness, bringing together some of the
leading scholars in the field, from an array of disciplines and
perspectives, to explore this condition of marginalization and the
ethical dilemmas that arise within it. The authors provide insights
into the realities and challenges of social research that will
guide students, activists, practitioners, policymakers, and service
providers, as well as both novice and seasoned researchers in
fields of inquiry ranging from anthropology and sociology to
geography and cultural studies. Although many texts have explored
the subject of homelessness, few have attempted to encapsulate and
examine the complex process of researching the issue as a
phenomenon unto itself. Professional Lives, Personal Struggles
examines the many challenges of conducting ethical research on
homelessness, as well as the potential for positive change and
transformation, through the deeply personal accounts of scholars
and advocates with extensive experience working in the field.
This edited collection provides an in-depth ethnographic study of
faith-based development organizations in the United States, shining
a much needed critical light onto these organizations and their
role in the United States by exploring the varied ways that
faith-based organizations attempt to mend the fissures and mitigate
the effects of neoliberal capitalism, poverty, and the social
service sector on the poor and powerless. In doing so, Not by Faith
Alone generates provocative and sophisticated analyses-grounded in
empirical case studies-of such topics as the meaning of
"faith-based" development, evaluations of faith-based versus
secular approaches, the influence of faith-orientation on program
formulation and delivery, and examinations of faith-based
organizations' impacts on structural inequality and poverty
alleviation. Taken together, the chapters in this volume
demonstrate the vital importance of ethnography for understanding
the particular role of faith-based agencies in development. The
contributors argue for an understanding of faith-based development
that moves beyond either dismissing or uncritically supporting
faith-based initiatives. Instead, contributors demonstrate the
importance of grounded analysis of the specific discourses,
practices, and beliefs that imbue faith-based development with such
power and reveal both the promise and the limitations of this
particular vehicle of service delivery.
As neoliberal philosophies and economic models spread across the
globe, faith-based non-governmental ("third-sector") organizations
have proliferated. They increasingly fill the gaps born of state
neglect by designing and delivering social services and development
programming. This collection shines a much-needed critical light
onto these organizations by exploring the varied ways that
faith-based organizations attempt to mend the fissures and mitigate
the effects of neoliberal capitalism and development practices on
the poor and powerless. The essays-grounded in empirical case
studies-cover such topics as the meaning of "faith-based"
development, evaluations of faith-based versus secular approaches,
the influence of faith-orientation on program formulation and
delivery, and examinations of faith-based organizations' impacts on
structural inequality and poverty alleviation. Bridging the Gaps
demonstrates the vital importance of ethnography for understanding
the particular role of faith-based agencies in Latin America,
revealing both the promise and the limitations of this "new" mode
of development.
From Tribute to Communal Sovereignty examines both continuity and
change over the last five centuries for the indigenous peoples of
Central Western Mexico, providing the first sweeping and
comprehensive regional history of this important region in
Mesoamerica. The continuities elucidated concern ancestral
territorial claims that date back centuries and reflect the stable
geographic locations occupied by core populations of indigenous
language-speakers in or near their pre-Columbian territories since
the Postclassical period, from the thirteenth to late fifteenth
centuries. A common theme of this volume is the strong cohesive
forces present, not only in the colonial construction of Christian
village communities in Purhepecha and Nahuatl groups in Michoacan
but also in the demographically less inclusive Huichol (Wixarika)
and Cora and Tepehuan groups, whose territories were more
extensive. The authors review a cluster of related themes:
settlement patterns of the last five centuries in Central Western
Mexico, language distribution, ritual representation of
territoriality, processes of collective identity, and the forms of
participation and resistance during different phases of Mexican
state formation. From such research, the question arises: does the
village community constitute a unique level of organization of the
experience of the original peoples of Central Western Mexico? The
chapters address this question in rich and complex ways by first
focusing on the past configurations and changes in lifeways during
the transition from pre-Columbian to Spanish rule in tributary
empires, then examining the long-term postcolonial process of
Mexican Independence that introduced the emerging theme of the
communal sovereignty.
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