Dry Bones Rattling

Author : Mark R. Warren
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400832040

Get Book

Dry Bones Rattling by Mark R. Warren Pdf

Dry Bones Rattling offers the first in-depth treatment of how to rebuild the social capital of America's communities while promoting racially inclusive, democratic participation. The Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) network in Texas and the Southwest is gaining national attention as a model for reviving democratic life in the inner city--and beyond. This richly drawn study shows how the IAF network works with religious congregations and other community-based institutions to cultivate the participation and leadership of Americans most left out of our elite-centered politics. Interfaith leaders from poor communities of color collaborate with those from more affluent communities to build organizations with the power to construct affordable housing, create job-training programs, improve schools, expand public services, and increase neighborhood safety. In clear and accessible prose, Mark Warren argues that the key to revitalizing democracy lies in connecting politics to community institutions and the values that sustain them. By doing so, the IAF network builds an organized, multiracial constituency with the power to advance desperately needed social policies. While Americans are most aware of the religious right, Warren documents the growth of progressive faith-based politics in America. He offers a realistic yet hopeful account of how this rising trend can transform the lives of people in our most troubled neighborhoods. Drawing upon six years of original fieldwork, Dry Bones Rattling proposes new answers to the problems of American democracy, community life, race relations, and the urban crisis.

Author : Michael BRUCE (Presbyterian Minister at Killinchy.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1700
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0020633500

Get Book

The Rattling of the Dry Bones: Or, A Sermon Preached in the Night Time at Chapel-yard in the Parish of Carluke. Clydsdale May 1672 by Michael BRUCE (Presbyterian Minister at Killinchy.) Pdf

Author : Dale Kenmuir
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Children's literature, African
ISBN : 0798627395

Get Book

Dry Bones Rattling by Dale Kenmuir Pdf

Author : June Steffensen Hagen
Publisher : Innisfree Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0931055997

Get Book

Rattling Those Dry Bones by June Steffensen Hagen Pdf

Twenty-two remarkable women of faith share their personal views and experiences of what holds them in the church. This powerful collection includes some of the church's most well-respected leaders, theologians and teachers such as Madeleine L'Engle, Susan Cole, Elisabeth Moltmann-Wendel, Virginia Ramey Mollenkott, Rosemary Haughton and Nancy Hardesty.

Author : Francesca Polletta
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226924281

Get Book

Freedom Is an Endless Meeting by Francesca Polletta Pdf

This “excellent study of activist politics in the United States over the past century” challenges the conventional wisdom about participatory democracy (Times Literary Supplement). Freedom Is an Endless Meeting offers vivid portraits of American experiments in participatory democracy throughout the twentieth century. Drawing on meticulous research and more than one hundred interviews with activists, Francesca Polletta upends the notion that participatory democracy is worthy in purpose but unworkable in practice. Instead, she shows that social movements have often used bottom-up decision making as a powerful tool for political change. Polletta traces the history of democracy from early labor struggles and pre-World War II pacifism, through the civil rights, new left, and women’s liberation movements of the sixties and seventies, and into today’s faith-based organizing and anti-corporate globalization campaigns. In the process, she uncovers neglected sources of democratic inspiration—such as Depression-era labor educators and Mississippi voting registration workers—as well as practical strategies of social protest. Polletta also highlights the obstacles that arise when activists model their democracies after nonpolitical relationships such as friendship, tutelage, and religious fellowship. She concludes with a call to forge new kinds of democratic relationships that balance trust with accountability, respect with openness to disagreement, and caring with inclusiveness. For anyone concerned about the prospects for democracy in America, Freedom Is an Endless Meeting will offer abundant historical, theoretical, and practical insights.

Author : Mario T. García
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781469643328

Get Book

Father Luis Olivares, a Biography by Mario T. García Pdf

This is the amazing untold story of the Los Angeles sanctuary movement's champion, Father Luis Olivares (1934–1993), a Catholic priest and a charismatic, faith-driven leader for social justice. Beginning in 1980 and continuing for most of the decade, hundreds of thousands of Salvadoran and Guatemalan refugees made the hazardous journey to the United States, seeking asylum from political repression and violence in their home states. Instead of being welcomed by the "country of immigrants," they were rebuffed by the Reagan administration, which supported the governments from which they fled. To counter this policy, a powerful sanctuary movement rose up to provide safe havens in churches and synagogues for thousands of Central American refugees. Based on previously unexplored archives and over ninety oral histories, this compelling biography traces the life of a complex and constantly evolving individual, from Olivares's humble beginnings in San Antonio, Texas, to his close friendship with legendary civil rights leader Cesar Chavez and his historic leadership of the United Neighborhoods Organization and the sanctuary movement.

Author : Kathleen Knight Abowitz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317253297

Get Book

Publics for Public Schools by Kathleen Knight Abowitz Pdf

This book articulates a path for a renewed conception of-and commitment to-the public dimensions of schooling. It is an interdisciplinary book of philosophy and politics, written for educational leaders working in or on behalf of public schooling. Publics for Public Schools introduces a fresh view on how educational leaders might view the public ideal. In this conception of public work and leadership, educational leaders do not work with the public but help to achieve publics for public schools. The demos, or "the people" in the case of democratic governance of schools, mobilize around particular problems related to young people and schooling; they are best understood not as "the public" but as multiple publics. This book provides a conception of public life and of public leadership that can enable educational leaders of all types to help achieve publics for their schools.

Author : Kyle Shelton
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781477314654

Get Book

Power Moves by Kyle Shelton Pdf

Since World War II, Houston has become a burgeoning, internationally connected metropolis—and a sprawling, car-dependent city. In 1950, it possessed only one highway, the Gulf Freeway, which ran between Houston and Galveston. Today, Houston and Harris County have more than 1,200 miles of highways, and a third major loop is under construction nearly thirty miles out from the historic core. Highways have driven every aspect of Houston's postwar development, from the physical layout of the city to the political process that has transformed both the transportation network and the balance of power between governing elites and ordinary citizens. Power Moves examines debates around the planning, construction, and use of highway and public transportation systems in Houston. Kyle Shelton shows how Houstonians helped shape the city's growth by attending city council meetings, writing letters to the highway commission, and protesting the destruction of homes to make way for freeways, which happened in both affluent and low-income neighborhoods. He demonstrates that these assertions of what he terms "infrastructural citizenship" opened up the transportation decision-making process to meaningful input from the public and gave many previously marginalized citizens a more powerful voice in civic affairs. Power Moves also reveals the long-lasting results of choosing highway and auto-based infrastructure over other transit options and the resulting challenges that Houstonians currently face as they grapple with how best to move forward from the consequences and opportunities created by past choices.

Author : Jeffrey C. Isaac
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 074252325X

Get Book

The Poverty of Progressivism by Jeffrey C. Isaac Pdf

Linking together political theory, American history, journalism and contemporary commentary, this book defends a democratic politics of civil society without illusions.

Author : Robert D. Putnam,Lewis Feldstein
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781439106884

Get Book

Better Together by Robert D. Putnam,Lewis Feldstein Pdf

In his acclaimed bestselling book, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, Robert Putnam described a thirty-year decline in America's social institutions. The book ended with the hope that new forms of social connection might be invented in order to revive our communities. In Better Together, Putnam and longtime civic activist Lewis Feldstein describe some of the diverse locations and most compelling ways in which civic renewal is taking place today. In response to civic crises and local problems, they say, hardworking, committed people are reweaving the social fabric all across America, often in innovative ways that may turn out to be appropriate for the twenty-first century. Better Together is a book of stories about people who are building communities to solve specific problems. The examples Putnam and Feldstein describe span the country from big cities such as Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Chicago to the Los Angeles suburbs, small Mississippi and Wisconsin towns, and quiet rural areas. The projects range from the strictly local to that of the men and women of UPS, who cover the nation. Bowling Alone looked at America from a broad and general perspective. Better Together takes us into Catherine Flannery's Roxbury, Massachusetts, living room, a UPS loading dock in Greensboro, North Carolina, a Philadelphia classroom, the Portsmouth, New Hampshire, naval shipyard, and a Bay Area Web site. We meet activists driven by their visions, each of whom has chosen to succeed by building community: Mexican Americans in the Rio Grande Valley who want paved roads, running water, and decent schools; Harvard University clerical workers searching for respect and improved working conditions; Waupun, Wisconsin, schoolchildren organizing to improve safety at a local railroad crossing; and merchants in Tupelo, Mississippi, joining with farmers to improve their economic status. As the stories in Better Together demonstrate, bringing people together by building on personal relationships remains one of the most effective strategies to enhance America's social health.

Author : Peter Levine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190464424

Get Book

We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For by Peter Levine Pdf

"In September 2011, two leading civic engagement advocacy organizations headed, respectively, by Robert Putnam and Peter Levine released a joint report showing that a region's level of civic engagement was a strong predictor of its ability to recover from the Great Recession. This finding confirms what advocates of civic engagement have long hypothesized: that strengthening the networks between government and civil society and increasing citizen participation results in better government and better community outcomes. However, citizens concerned about the economic crisis need more than just deliberation or community organizing alone to achieve these outcomes. What they need, according to Peter Levine, is a movement devoted to civic renewal. Deliberative democracy-the idea that true democratic legitimacy derives from open, inclusive discussion and dialogue rather than simple voting-has become an extremely influential concept in the last two decades. In We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For, Peter Levine contends that effective deliberative democracy depends upon effective community advocacy. Deliberation, he shows, is most valuable when talk and debate are integrated into a community's everyday life. To illustrate how it works, Levine draws lessons from both community organizing and developmental psychology, and uses examples of successful efforts from communities across America as well as fledgling democracies in Africa and Eastern Europe. By engaging in this type of civic work, American citizens can meaningfully contribute to civic renewal, which, in turn, will address serious social problems that cannot be fixed in any other way"--

Author : David R. Johnson
Publisher : Trinity University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781595349231

Get Book

In the Loop by David R. Johnson Pdf

In the Loop: A Political and Economic History of San Antonio, is the culmination of urban historian David Johnson’s extensive research into the development of Texas’s oldest city. Beginning with San Antonio’s formation more than three hundred years ago, Johnson lays out the factors that drove the largely uneven and unplanned distribution of resources and amenities and analyzes the demographics that transformed the city from a frontier settlement into a diverse and complex modern metropolis. Following the shift from military interests to more diverse industries and punctuated by evocative descriptions and historical quotations, this urban biography reveals how city mayors balanced constituents’ push for amenities with the pull of business interests such as tourism and the military. Deep dives into city archives fuel the story and round out portraits of Sam Maverick, Henry B. Gonzales, Lila Cockrell, and other political figures. Johnson reveals the interplay of business interests, economic attractiveness, and political goals that spurred San Antonio’s historic tenacity and continuing growth and highlights individual agendas that influenced its development. He focuses on the crucial link between urban development and booster coalitions, outlining how politicians and business owners everywhere work side by side, although not necessarily together, to shape the future of any metropolitan area, including geographical disparities. Three photo galleries illustrate boosterism’s impact on San Antonio’s public and private space and highlight its tangible results. In the Loop recounts each stage of San Antonio’s economic development with logic and care, building a rich story to contextualize our understanding of the current state of the city and our notions of how an American city can form.

Author : Margaret C. K. W. Kamuwanga
Publisher : Book Venture Publishing LLC
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781640694118

Get Book

Woman by Margaret C. K. W. Kamuwanga Pdf

The creation of a woman was the best thing that happened to divinity and humanity which the devil has twisted to his advantage. His lies have bullied women o_ their place of assignment and left them disoriented about who they are. Because of insecurities, women have settled for less, trying to prove their value and validate their identity. This identity crisis has caused tragic breakdowns economically, socially, culturally, morally, ecclesiastically and spiritually leaving a human race, a victim of this fate because a woman is a key player in this game of life. This book is a great mirror for every woman who wants to see the real image of who she was created to be and how vital her existence is to divinity and humanity. It redefines who she is, her value, her purpose, what she represents, the divine mysteries hidden in her and how she affects the totality of human life. Today, it is imperative that every woman rediscovers God’s original blueprint for her life in order to maximize her potential and preserve life in her domain. Everything about, within, without and around a woman is connected. Therefore, she cannot be defined by one title. She is plural. She is on a mission as an undercover agent hired by God, licensed by Jesus Christ and empowered by the Holy Spirit.

Author : Zolile Ntshona
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781491897737

Get Book

Valley of Dry Bones by Zolile Ntshona Pdf

In life, we choose to differentiate ourselves based on groups of our choice. I am better, you are worse; I am good, you are bad; I am brilliant, you are a mediocre or dumb (stupid). There are social groups across the world, which are said to be in a state of cohesion when its members possess bonds linking them to one another and to the group as a whole . In reality there is a tendency of continuous disagreements in the subset of the group. The latter usually happens despite clear statutes of the group, which entail principles of what is or is not expected. In Christianity, the same happens. Christians, sometimes behave as if we serve a multiplicity of gods. This letter, addressed to pastors (including evangelists, apostles, teachers and prophets) and their church members, demonstrates our differences in understanding the things of God. Our differences, which can be perceived as though we are not of one family serving one Master, result primarily from not asking God Himself for a clear direction. We are NOT dry bones, of one body, which are apart from each other. We are family, we are one!

Author : Josephine Ng
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781490888569

Get Book

No Longer Alone Through the Valley by Josephine Ng Pdf

What do you do when faced with persistent physical hurdles? You may do your best to follow medical instructions and take your prescribed medications, expecting to get better. But what do you do when medication can only do so much? Life is made of unequal struggles, and author Josephine Ng certainly had her share. In No Longer Alone through the Valley, she describes more than forty years of health problems. With few resources and opportunities, her options were scarce, and her ideals often collided with unfulfilled expectations. She lost motivation, abandoned her dreams, and became frustrated with recurring obstacles. But finally, she found solace, acceptance, and identity—in the Bible. Men and women of the Bible grapple with failures and future goals. Ng found encouragement in their stories and their strength, and she shows how you can, too. Although Ng continues to wrestle with challenges and adjustments to life’s unpredictable changes remain in her life, she is no longer alone in dealing with those problems. No Longer Alone through the Valley seeks to help you find Jesus’ gifts to guide you through your challenges, whatever they might be. All you have to do is ask.