A Theology of Community Organizing: Power to the People

Author:   Chris Shannahan (University of Birmingham, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Pages:   224
Publication Date:   06 February 2018
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Author:   Chris Shannahan (University of Birmingham, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138548848


ISBN 10:   1138548847
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   06 February 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction. Part I: ‘Experience’ 1. What is Community Organizing? 2. Reweaving the Fabric of Society: Community Organizing in Britain Part II: ‘Analysis’ 3. Part of a ‘New Politics’ 4. Enrichment and Challenge: Lessons from Social Theory Part III: ‘Reflection’ 5. Finding the Faith to Organize 6. A Theology of Community Organizing: Becoming Yeast in the City Part IV: ‘Response’ Conclusion

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This monograph offers an exemplary practical theological reflection, using the pastoral cycle to think through the experience of community organising and how it links with social and political theory, as well as with theological concepts... this monograph is very stimulating, and well worth a close read. - Jack Barentsen, ETF in Leuven, in Journal of Empirical Theology


""This monograph offers an exemplary practical theological reflection, using the pastoral cycle to think through the experience of community organising and how it links with social and political theory, as well as with theological concepts... this monograph is very stimulating, and well worth a close read."" - Jack Barentsen, ETF in Leuven, in Journal of Empirical Theology


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Chris Shannahan is a Research Fellow in Urban Theology at the University of Birmingham and Director of the University’s Urban Religion Community Education Programme. He worked previously as an inner city Methodist Minister for sixteen years. He is actively involved in a range of community development projects in Birmingham. He has taught Urban and Practical Theology at the Queens Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education, the University of Birmingham and Newman College University in Birmingham and spoken at conferences held by the Iona Community, the Progressive Christianity Network, the Institute for Urban Theology and the Association of American Geographers. He has recently launched a Metropolitan Religion Study group at the University of Birmingham aimed at graduates in the West Midlands and a community centred Urban Theology Forum. His first book, Voices from the Borderland (2010), provided a critical exploration of contemporary urban theologies and called for the development of a new interdisciplinary and cross-cultural pattern of urban theology that is more attuned to the complex and interrelated fluid urban world of the twenty-first century.

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