Susan L. Engh

Women's Work (eBook, ePUB)

The Transformational Power of Faith-Based Community Organizing

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In Women's Work: The Transformational Power of Faith-Based Community Organizing, Susan L. Engh draws on her own experiences and those of twenty-one other women who work in the field of faith-based community organizing to describe how women have been transformed by their participation in organizing, and how they have been agents of transformation in congregations, denominations, organizations, and the public arena. This book provides a basic description of faith-based community organizing through the first-person perspectives of a diverse array of women.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978706316
• Artikelnr.: 56798534

Autorenporträt

Susan L. Engh is program director for congregation-based organizing for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and clergy consultant to the Gamaliel national network.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Foreword Kim Bobo
Introduction
1. The Transformation of Women
2. The Transformation of Local Faith Communities
3. The Transformation of National Religious Bodies
4. The Transformation of Community Organizations
5. The Transformation of Communities
6. Women's Paths to Power
Biographical Profiles of the Women Interviewed for this Book
Glossary of Terms and Organizations
Recommended Reading
About the Author