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Price-spratlen, Townsand

 
9781433125973: Nurturing Sanctuary: Community Capacity Building in African American Churches
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ISBN 10 : 1433125978 ISBN 13 : 9781433125973
Editeur : Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 2015

Synopsis

How are predominantly African American churches meeting the needs of young people ? What resources of, and tensions in, faith leadership are shaping answers to this and other related questions ? Nurturing Sanctuary analyzes ways in which the two most vital institutions of the Black experience – families and churches – are working with schools and health providers to respond to contemporary challenges and improve the twenty-first century life chances of African Americans and others. Data were generated from a four-year collaboration of eighteen churches, public health professionals, service learning students, and an interdisciplinary team of researchers. Eighty parents and pastors, and over 400 teenagers in a large, Midwestern city specified strategies of action in their daily lives and how they use them to respond, more and less successfully, to their many life challenges. Nurturing Sanctuary explores three capacity-building themes that emerged and critiques diverse Sacred and secular resources being developed and used. Finally, it specifies innovative best practices that are enriching faith-health relationships among religiously active persons, and all others with whom they interact within and beyond sanctuary walls.

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À propos de l'auteur

Townsand Price-Spratlen (PhD, University of Washington) is Associate Professor of Sociology at Ohio State University. He is an urban sociologist who researches historical and contemporary community capacity building. His current focus is analyzing grassroots and faith-affiliated organizations to better understand how faith informs health, well-being, and social justice outcomes.

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Éditeur
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1433125978
ISBN 13 
9781433125973
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
215
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