Ines W Jindra, Michael Jindra, Sarah Degenero

Contrasts in Religion, Community, and Structure at Three Homeless Shelters

Changing Lives

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

How do people in poverty and homelessness change their lives and get back on their feet? Homeless shelters across the world play a huge role in this process. In this timely book, the authors look at three homeless shelters that take more or less intensive approaches to faith, community, and programming.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9780367677114
• ISBN-10: 0367677113
• Artikelnr.: 62269429

Autorenporträt

Ines W. Jindra is an assistant professor of Social Work and BSW program director in the Department of Sociology, Social Work, and Criminology at Idaho State University in Pocatello, U.S.A. Michael Jindra is a cultural anthropologist at the Institute on Culture, Religion & World Affairs at Boston University, U.S.A. Sarah DeGenero is a graduate from Gordon College, U.S.A.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Introduction: Homelessness and faith-based organizations Chapter
2. Theoretical concepts and methods Chapter 3. Religion and spirituality,
community, and program structure at Grace Ministries, a faith-permeated
organization Chapter 4. Self-sufficiency and program structure at house of
hope, a faith-affiliated organization Chapter 5. Respite center: optional
participation and divergent responses in a largely secular nonprofit
Chapter 6. What we found and why it matters Methodological appendix