Disrupting Homelessness: Alternative Christian Approaches
Disrupting Homelessness unmasks the futile assumptions of our present approaches to homelessness and suggests ways in which Christians and Christian communities can create a prophetic social movement to end poverty and homelessness.
The American dream, as conveyed by the media, includes owning a home. Increasingly, people are homeless or precariously housed because of joblessness, foreclosure, or dislocation. Ecclesial responses to homelessness and housing vary. Some Christian organizations focus on fixing the person and the behaviors that contribute to homelessness. Others promote home ownership for low–income households.
Employing a disruptive Christian ethics, Laura Stivers criticizes both approaches, outlines an advocacy approach for churches to address the multiple causes of homelessness, and calls us to make a home for all in God's just and compassionate community.
- Publisher Fortress Press
- Format Paperback
- ISBN 9780800697976
- eBook ISBN 9781451412864
- Dimensions 5.5 x 8.5
- Pages 200
- Publication Date April 1, 2011
Endorsements
"A thoughtful analysis of how communities of faith can respond to the tragic problem of homelessness in our country while empowering the voices and perspectives of people who experience homelessness firsthand. Strivers's approach channels the urge among concerned religious people for compassionate engagement with the problem into a power–reflexive mode of action. She calls for solutions grounded in relationships of justice between poor people and those who are not poor."
—Dennis Culhane
Professor of Social Policy
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
"This book is a wonderfully concise and comprehensive introduction to a deeply challenging problem: homelessness in the United States. Laura Stivers never wavers from prioritizing a view from the margins, calling for solidarity with those experiencing suffering and dislocation. The comprehensiveness of her investigation—skillfully drawing upon stories, economic data, cultural criticism, and political analysis—allows her to suggest some real possibilities for change. And the clarity of her chapters with the accompanying questions will enable students of many ages truly to study 'what justice requires' in response to this profound social challenge."
—Elizabeth M. Bounds
Candler School of Theology
Emory University
—Dennis Culhane
Professor of Social Policy
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
"This book is a wonderfully concise and comprehensive introduction to a deeply challenging problem: homelessness in the United States. Laura Stivers never wavers from prioritizing a view from the margins, calling for solidarity with those experiencing suffering and dislocation. The comprehensiveness of her investigation—skillfully drawing upon stories, economic data, cultural criticism, and political analysis—allows her to suggest some real possibilities for change. And the clarity of her chapters with the accompanying questions will enable students of many ages truly to study 'what justice requires' in response to this profound social challenge."
—Elizabeth M. Bounds
Candler School of Theology
Emory University
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