{"product_id":"9780823293964","title":"Land of Stark Contrasts : Faith-Based Responses to Homelessness in the United States","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn important new volume showcasing a wide range of faith-based responses to one of today's most pressing social issues, challenging us to expand our ways of understanding. \n\u003cbr\u003e \n\u003cbr\u003e Land of Stark Contrasts brings together the work of social scientists, ethicists, and theologians exploring the profound role of religion in understanding and responding to homelessness and housing insecurity in all corners of the United States—from Seattle, San Francisco, and Silicon Valley to Dallas and San Antonio to Washington, D.C., and Boston.\n\u003cbr\u003e Together, the essays of Land of Stark Contrasts chart intriguing ways forward for future initiatives to address the root causes of homelessness. In this way they are essential reading for practical theologians, congregational leaders, and faith-based nonprofit organizers exploring how to combine spiritual and material care for homeless individuals and other vulnerable populations. Social workers, nonprofit managers, and policy specialists seeking to understand how to partner better with faith-based organizations will also find the chapters in this volume an invaluable resource.\n\u003cbr\u003e Contributors include James V. Spickard, Manuel Mejido Costoya and Margaret Breen, Michael R. Fisher Jr., Laura Stivers, Lauren Valk Lawson, Bruce Granville Miller, Nancy A. Khalil, John A. Coleman, S.J., Jeremy Phillip Brown, Paul Houston Blankenship, María Teresa Dávila, Roberto Mata, and Sathianathan Clarke.\n\u003cbr\u003e Co-published with Seattle University's Center for Religious Wisdom and World Affairs\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52286617944375,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":232.97,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/3548\/7543\/files\/9780823293964-1.jpg?v=1784964491","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.my\/products\/9780823293964","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Malaysia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}