Deeply Woven Roots: Improving the Quality of Life in Your Community - Couverture souple

Gunderson, Gary

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0800630955 ISBN 13 : 9780800630959

Editeur : Augsburg Fortress, 1997

Synopsis

With insight born of experience and conviction, The Carter Center's Gary Gunderson suggests ways that congregations, religious leaders, and concerned individuals can take practical steps to improve the health of their communities.

As governmental involvement in alleviating social problems wanes, Gunderson argues, congregations are uniquely positioned to ""feed the roots"" that build and sustain community life. Their commitment can make the difference in addressing such problems as violence, substance abuse, housing, nutrition, and public health. His book shows why congregations matter, how religious commitment helps people transcend the individualism of today's world, what singular powers religious persons can bring to their communities, and how parishes can train people in skills for knowledge-building and community-building. He then offers a model of what a congregation in the year 2010 might be doing to improve the health of its larger ""neighborhood.""

Eminently practical yet deeply religious, Gunderson's book will help people of faith nurture community life at its roots.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Gary Gunderson is VP of Faith and Health Ministries, Medical Center Administration, Wake Forest School of Medicine. He is responsible for a national program mobilizing faith groups around a broad range of health issues.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Augsburg Fortress
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0800630955
• ISBN 13: 9780800630959
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible