Dismantling Injustice

Author : April Love-Fordham
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498289146

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Dismantling Injustice by April Love-Fordham Pdf

The world needs leaders who are prepared to dismantle injustice. Through the story told in the Song of Solomon, you will learn to use the one tool that heals both victim and oppressor: God's love. This once popular interpretation of the Song of Solomon details a young woman's struggle between submitting to King Solomon as his sex slave and accepting her beloved Shepherd's invitation to come away. The scholars who subscribed to this interpretation believed the Song of Solomon was a rallying cry to dismantle the injustices perpetuated by the unpopular King Solomon against his Northern Kingdom. Was this interpretation buried in modern times to justify slavery and segregation? You will need to judge for yourself. The book is divided into eight lessons, each ending with a suggested spiritual practice. The reader gets a solid understanding of the Song of Solomon wrapped around an unforgettable parable: the story of an African-American baseball coach turned congressional representative, who, influenced by the Song of Solomon, spent his life dismantling injustice. The Disorderly Parable Bible Studies teach the way Jesus taught, by using stories of everyday people and things to illustrate spiritual truths.

Author : Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook,Karen B. Montagno
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506482484

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Injustice and the Care of Souls, Second Edition by Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook,Karen B. Montagno Pdf

The practice of pastoral care cannot escape the realities of injustices and oppression that often operate in the context where caregiving happens. In response, Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook and Karen B. Montagno present a compilation of essays that reach beyond individualistic, white, Western, middle-class models of caregiving that can mimic systems of injustice. Instead, the resulting volume offers constructive approaches to caregiving that more effectively meet the needs of those who routinely experience marginalization and oppression. Kujawa-Holbrook and Montagno argue that the fundamental work of religious traditions, including caregiving, is about human freedom and wholeness. As such, Injustice and the Care of Souls helps chaplains, pastoral counselors, social service workers, and other caregivers to better situate their work within the contexts of those seeking care. The book also helps caregivers to reflect on ways their social locations affect their work. Since its first publication nearly fifteen years ago, this book uniquely offered content that situated contexts such as substructures in urban neighborhoods, religious liturgical practices, and the impact of public policies as the focus for examining critical dynamics surrounding those seeking care, the caregiver, and the hope for oppression-sensitive forms of pastoral care. This second edition revises and reorganizes previous essays while providing additional ones. New chapters include ones that highlight the dead time of prison life, the impact of moral decision-making on veterans, and the life-or-death challenges that immigrants and refugees often face. Kujawa-Holbrook and Montagno divide this edition's twenty-seven essays into five parts, with the first part devoted to the pastoral caregiver's positionality. The remaining sections address pastoral caregiving as embodied practices, cultural fluency and intersectional awareness, pastoral practice across the life span, and pastoral practice and public witness. This volume's contributors offer spiritual caregivers a compilation of approaches to the care of souls that bring healing, voice, and wholeness to the marginalized and oppressed.

Author : Kecia M. Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000045963

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Diversity Resistance in Organizations by Kecia M. Thomas Pdf

This new volume revisits diversity resistance ten years later, examining the fluidity of diversity resistance in workplaces. Top-notch contributors provide insight about the motivations to resist diversity and inclusion as well as offer strategies for preventing and derailing diversity resistance and enhancing inclusion in organizations. The current edition broadens the conversation about diversity resistance by demonstrating methods of counter-resistance and how diversity resistance manifests in everyday lives, as well as how it presents itself and limits the careers and lives of various stigmatized groups. Chapters also consider why, despite the often expressed value for diversity and inclusion, diversity resistance continues to persist. Contributors demonstrate the persistence of diversity resistance across time, context, and for a variety of targets. For example, this volume addresses topics as well as marginalized groups not previously discussed in the first edition such as intersectionality, workers living with mental illness, gender identity, trans workers, and the systemic resistance experienced by gay couples. This volume will be of interest to scholars and practitioners as well as minoritized workers. It will function as a framework for understanding the continuum of exclusion, harassment and discrimination that occurs within organizational settings and the impact upon individual and organizational performance. Practitioners will find examples and cases for how diversity resistance manifests, but more importantly strategies and recommendations for derailing diversity resistance and enhancing inclusion.

Author : Shaun King
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Black lives matter movement
ISBN : 9780358048008

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Make Change by Shaun King Pdf

Activist and journalist Shaun King reflects on the events that made him one of the most prominent social justice leaders of our time and lays out a clear action plan for you to join the fight--with a foreword from Bernie Sanders

Author : Jesse Bazzul,Christina Siry
Publisher : Springer
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319999906

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Critical Voices in Science Education Research by Jesse Bazzul,Christina Siry Pdf

This book is a collection of narratives from a diverse array of science education researchers that elucidate some of the difficulties of becoming a science education researcher and/or science teacher educator, with the hope that through solidarity, commonality, and “telling the story”, justice-oriented science education researchers will feel more supported in their own journeys. Being a scholar and teacher that sees science education as a space for justice, and thinking/being different, entry into this disciplinary field often comes with tense moments and personal difficulties. The chapter authors of this book break into many painful, awkward, and seemingly nebulous topics, including the intersectional nuances of what it means to be a researcher in the contexts of epistemic rigidness, white supremacy, and neoliberal restructuring. Of course these contexts become different depending on how teachers, students, and researchers are constituted within them (as racialized/sexed/gendered/disposable/valued subjects). We hope that within these narratives readers will identify with similar struggles in terms of what it means to desire to “do good in the world”, while facing subtle and not-so-subtle institutional, personal cultural, and political challenges.

Author : Adam Russell Taylor
Publisher : Broadleaf Books
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506464541

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A More Perfect Union by Adam Russell Taylor Pdf

America is at a pivotal crossroads. The soul of our nation is at stake and in peril. A new public narrative is needed to unite Americans around common values and to counter the increasing discord and acrimony in our politics and culture. The process of healing and creating a more perfect union in our nation must start now. The moral vision of Martin Luther King Jr.'s Beloved Community, which animated and galvanized the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, provides a hopeful way forward. In A More Perfect Union, Adam Russell Taylor, president of Sojourners, reimagines a contemporary version of the Beloved Community that will inspire and unite Americans across generations, geographic and class divides, racial and gender differences, faith traditions, and ideological leanings. In the Beloved Community, neither privilege nor punishment is tied to race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, or economic status, and everyone is able to realize their full potential and thrive. Building the Beloved Community requires living out a series of commitments, such as true equality, radical welcome, transformational interdependence, E Pluribus Unum ("out of many, one"), environmental stewardship, nonviolence, and economic equity. By building the Beloved Community we unify the country around a shared moral vision that transcends ideology and partisanship, tapping into our most sacred civic and religious values, enabling our nation to live up to its best ideals and realize a more perfect union.

Author : Amy Reed-Sandoval
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190619800

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Socially Undocumented by Amy Reed-Sandoval Pdf

"What does it really mean to "be undocumented," particularly in the contemporary United States? Political philosophers, policymakers and others often define the term "undocumented migrant" legalistically-that is, in terms of lacking legal authorization to live and work in one's current country of residence. Socially Undocumented: Identity and Immigration Justice challenges such a pure "legalistic understanding" by arguing that being undocumented should not always be conceptualized along such lines. To be socially undocumented, it argues, is to possess a real, visible, and embodied social identity that does not always track one's actual legal status in the United States. By integrating a descriptive/phenomenological account of socially undocumented identity with a normative/political account of how the oppression with which it is associated ought to be dealt with as a matter of social justice, this book offers a new vision of immigration ethics. It addresses concrete ethical challenges associated with immigration, such as the question of whether open borders are morally required, the militarization of the Mexico-U.S. border, the perilous journey that many Mexican and Central American migrants undertake to get to the United States, the difficult experiences of many socially undocumented women who cross U.S. borders to seek prenatal care while visibly pregnant, and more"--

Author : Gushee, David P. ,Williams, Reggie L.
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608338306

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Justice and the Way of Jesus by Gushee, David P. ,Williams, Reggie L. Pdf

"Eighteen Christian theologians and ethicists offer a rich engagement with the theological ethics of Glen Stassen (1936-2014)"--

Author : Heesoon Jun
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031503610

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Social Justice, Multicultural Counseling, and Practice by Heesoon Jun Pdf

Author : Mentors Library
Publisher : Mentors Library
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781304856012

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Extended Summary - Just Mercy - Based On The Book By Bryan Stevenson by Mentors Library Pdf

EXTENDED SUMMARY: JUST MERCY – BASED ON THE BOOK BY BRYAN STEVENSON Are you ready to boost your knowledge about "JUST MERCY"? Do you want to quickly and concisely learn the key lessons of this book? Are you ready to process the information of an entire book in just one reading of approximately 20 minutes? Would you like to have a deeper understanding of the techniques and exercises in the original book? Then this book is for you! BOOK CONTENT: Introduction to Just Mercy The Origins of Bryan Stevenson's Journey Injustice Unveiled: Examining Systemic Racism A Glimpse into the Life of Walter McMillian The Power of Legal Advocacy Eyes on Death Row: Stories of the Condemned Bryan Stevenson's Battle Against Unjust Sentences The Impact of Poverty on the Criminal Justice System Racial Bias in the Courts: Unveiling the Truth The Challenges of Defending the Poor and Marginalized The Transformative Power of Mercy and Redemption Breaking Down Barriers: Legal Triumphs and Setbacks The Legacy of Just Mercy: Inspiring Change Reflections on Bryan Stevenson's Advocacy Call to Action: The Continuing Fight for Justice

Author : Versha Pleasant
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780443131509

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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Obstetrics and Gynecology, An Issue of Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics, E-Book by Versha Pleasant Pdf

In this issue of Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics of North America, guest editor Dr. Versha Pleasant brings her considerable expertise to the topic of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Obstetrics and Gynecology. To improve DEI in obstetrics and gynecology, better education and training is needed as well as implementations to achieve a more diverse and inclusive workforce. This issue, the first on this topic in Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics, looks at different types of conditions and care among communities of color, while also providing important information on how to address DEI in the workforce (namely in Ob/Gyn residencies), providing current information that can be implemented in clinical practice. Contains 13 relevant, practice-oriented topics including gynecologic care for LGBTQ+ patients; gynecologic care of Native American communities; DEI in obstetric/gynecologic residency; diversifying the workforce in obstetrics and gynecology; and more. Provides in-depth clinical reviews on diversity, equity, and inclusion in obstetrics and gynecology, offering actionable insights for clinical practice. Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.

Author : Shamillah Wilson,Anasuya Sengupta,Kristy Evans
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1842777270

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Defending Our Dreams by Shamillah Wilson,Anasuya Sengupta,Kristy Evans Pdf

The unique experiences, perspectives and visions of young feminists are extremely valuable in both understanding the current world order and in shaping a better future. Young feminists are engaged as advocates, organisers, protesters, researchers and strategists, and their energies, visions, solidarity, creativity and passion are instrumental in defining social movements globally. This pioneering collection brings together analyses by feminists of diverse identities on a range of themes including women's rights and economic change; new technologies; sexuality; and feminist organizations and movements. Defending Our Dreams includes analyses by contributors from Uruguay, Venezuela, South Africa, Tanzania, Nepal, India, Canada, the USA, Australia, Barbados and the UK. This book is essential reading for all those engaged in feminist research, organizing and activism.

Author : Kristien Zenkov,Diane Corrigan,Ronald S. Beebe,Corey R. Sell
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780739177631

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Professional Development Schools and Social Justice by Kristien Zenkov,Diane Corrigan,Ronald S. Beebe,Corey R. Sell Pdf

This bookextends the national discussion about the Professional Development School (PDS) movement of the past three decades. The volume highlights school/university partnerships’ focus on collaborative activities that endeavor to promote social justice in and across P-12 and university classrooms, educational institutions, and communities. Professional Development Schools and Social Justice: Schools and Universities Partnering to Make a Difference guides veteran teachers, undergraduate and graduate pre-service teachers, and university faculty to understand how the PDS model might be oriented toward social justice ideals. Co-authored by school- and university-based educators, each chapter details the social justice work of specific partnerships and provides concrete instructional and curricular methods for application within both teacher education and PK-12 settings. Readers are provided insight into a range of elements of Professional Development Schools, including the development of PK-12 and teacher education curricula, processes of program implementation, and research and data collection.

Author : Ruth Weatherall
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05
Category : Feminism
ISBN : 9781529210200

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Reimagining Academic Activism by Ruth Weatherall Pdf

Based on deep ethnographic research, this book explores new practices and ideas about activism in the fight against social inequality.

Author : Ananya Chatterjea,Hui Niu Wilcox,Alessandra Lebea Williams
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780295749563

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Dancing Transnational Feminisms by Ananya Chatterjea,Hui Niu Wilcox,Alessandra Lebea Williams Pdf

Through empowered movement that centers the lives, stories, and dreams of marginalized women, Ananya Dance Theatre has revealed how the practice of and commitment to artistic excellence can catalyze social justice. With each performance, this professional dance company of Black, Brown, and Indigenous gender non-conforming women and femmes of color challenges heteronormative patriarchies, white supremacist paradigms, and predatory global capitalism. Their creative artistic processes and vital interventions have transformed the spaces of contemporary concert dance into sites of empowerment, resistance, and knowledge production. Drawing from more than fifteen years of collaborative dance-making and sustained dialogues based on deep alliances across communities of color, Dancing Transnational Feminisms offers a multigenre exploration of how dance can be intersectionally reimagined as practice, methodology, and metaphor for feminist solidarity. Blending essays with stories, interviews, and poems, this collection explores timely questions surrounding race and performance, gender and sexuality, art and politics, global and local inequities, and the responsibilities of artists toward their communities.