To Save a Thousand Souls
Author | : Brett A. Brannen |
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Release | : 2020-06-30 |
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ISBN | : 9781735329307 |
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Author | : Brett A. Brannen |
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Release | : 2020-06-30 |
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ISBN | : 9781735329307 |
Author | : Heidi Rolland Unruh |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2005-10-06 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0195161556 |
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. This text seeks to answer pressing questions surrounding this important and controversial issue.
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Publisher | : Chalice Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780827221475 |
In Lee Butler's own words, "This book is an attempt to answer the question, 'Who are we as African Americans?'" Attempting to answer this question is one way we participate in the works of salvation. Liberating Our Dignity, Saving Our Souls is a study of African American identity aimed at pointing a way out of a current crisis into a new liberation and salvation. Butler combines insights and methodologies from developmental psychology, liberation theology, and African American history to plot a new course for contemporary African Americans to gain a sense of identity that will guide them away from the identity the European and American cultures have traditionally forced upon them. This involves determining identity by personal worth; not by occupation, economic class, or social class.
Author | : Heidi Rolland Unruh |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2005-10-06 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0198036574 |
Recent years have seen unprecedented attention to faith-based institutions as agents of social change, spurred in part by cuts in public funding for social services and accompanied by controversy about the separation of church and state. The debate over faith-based initiatives has highlighted a small but growing segment of churches committed to both saving souls and serving society. What distinguishes faith-based from secular activism? How do religious organizations express their religious identity in the context of social services? How do faith-based service providers interpret the connection between spiritual methodologies and socioeconomic outcomes? How does faith motivate and give meaning to social ministry? Drawing on case studies of fifteen Philadelphia-area Protestant churches with active outreach, Saving Souls, Serving Society seeks to answer these and other pressing questions surrounding the religious dynamics of social ministry. While church-based programs often look similar to secular ones in terms of goods or services rendered, they may show significant differences in terms of motivations, desired outcomes, and interpretations of meaning. Church-based programs also differ from one another in terms of how they relate evangelism to their social outreach agenda. Heidi Rolland Unruh and Ronald J. Sider explore how churches navigate the tension between their spiritual mission and the constraints on evangelism in the context of social services. The authors examine the potential contribution of religious dynamics to social outcomes as well as the relationship between mission orientations and social capital. Unruh and Sider introduce a new vocabulary for describing the religious components and spiritual meanings embedded in social action, and provide a typology of faith-based organizations and programs. Their analysis yields a framework for Protestant mission orientations that makes room for the diverse ways that churches interrelate spiritual witness and social compassion. Based on their observations, the authors offer a constructive approach to church-state partnerships and provide a far more objective understanding of faith-based social services than previously available.
Author | : David Hardiman |
Publisher | : Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9042021063 |
Missionary medicine flourished during the period of high European imperialism, from the late-1800s to the 1960s. Although the figure of mission doctor - exemplified by David Livingstone and Albert Schweitzer - exercised a powerful influence on the Western imagination during the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, few historians have examined the history of this important aspect of the missionary movement. This collection of articles on Asia and Africa uses the extensive archives that exist on medical missions to both enrich and challenge existing histories of the clinic in colonial territories - whether of the dispensary, the hospital, the maternity home or leprosy asylum. Some of the major themes addressed within include the attitude of different Christian denominations towards medical mission work, their differing theories and practices, how the missionaries were drawn into contentious local politics, and their attitude towards supernatural cures. Leprosy, often a feature of such work, is explored, as well as the ways in which local people perceived disease, healing and the missionaries themselves. Also discussed is the important contribution of women towards mission medical work. Healing Bodies, Saving Souls will be of interest not only to students and historians but also the wider reader as it aims to define the place of missionary within the overall history of medicine.
Author | : Guenter B. Risse |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 747 |
Release | : 1999-04-15 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0195055233 |
This is a brilliant, original, and broadly defined history of the hospital, drawing extensively on narratives written by patients and caregivers to give vivid pictures of hospital life at key stages in the development of the institution.
Author | : Samuel Chambers KENT |
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Total Pages | : 22 |
Release | : 1859 |
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Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2016-08-01 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9401203636 |
This collection of articles on Asia and Africa uses the extensive archives that exist on medical missions to both enrich and challenge existing histories of the clinic in colonial territories – whether of the dispensary, the hospital, the maternity home or leprosy asylum. Some of the major themes addressed within include the attitude of different Christian denominations towards medical mission work, their differing theories and practices, how the missionaries were drawn into contentious local politics, and their attitude towards supernatural cures.
Author | : John Kaag |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2020-03-17 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0691192162 |
James believed that philosophy was meant to articulate, and help answer, a single existential question, one which lent itself to the title of one of his most famous essays: "Is life worth living?" Through examination of an array of existentially loaded topics covered in his works-truth, God, evil, suffering, death, and the meaning of life-James concluded that it is up to us to make life worth living. He said that our beliefs, the truths that guide our lives, matter-their value and veracity turn on the way they play out practically for ourselves and our communities. For James, philosophy was about making life meaningful, and for some of us, liveable. This is the core of his "pragmatic maxim," that truth should be judged on the bases of its practical consequences. Kaag shows how James put this maxim into use in his philosophy and his life and how we can do so in our own. .
Author | : Eva Illouz |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2008-03-04 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0520253736 |
'Saving the Modern Soul' explores the impact of therapeutic discourse on our lives & on our contemporary notions of identity. Eva Illouz examines how self-help culture has transformed emotional life & how therapy complicates individuals' lives even as it claims to dissect their emotional experiences.