Doing Justice: Congregations and Community Organizing, 2nd Edition
Doing Justice introduces people of faith to congregation-based community organizing rooted in the day-to- day struggles and hopes of urban ministry. Drawing from the authors decades of experience in community organizing ministry and skillfully illustrated with examples, Dennis A. Jacobsen weaves theological and biblical warrants for community organizing into concrete strategies for achieving justice in the public arena and discusses fundamental organizing principles like power, self-interest, and agitation. The second, updated edition includes a new preface and forewords, new sidebars by Grant Stevensen that draw the reader into conversation, an expanded list for further reading, and updated contact information on organizing networks and relevant websites.

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Doing Justice: Congregations and Community Organizing, 2nd Edition
Doing Justice introduces people of faith to congregation-based community organizing rooted in the day-to- day struggles and hopes of urban ministry. Drawing from the authors decades of experience in community organizing ministry and skillfully illustrated with examples, Dennis A. Jacobsen weaves theological and biblical warrants for community organizing into concrete strategies for achieving justice in the public arena and discusses fundamental organizing principles like power, self-interest, and agitation. The second, updated edition includes a new preface and forewords, new sidebars by Grant Stevensen that draw the reader into conversation, an expanded list for further reading, and updated contact information on organizing networks and relevant websites.

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Doing Justice: Congregations and Community Organizing, 2nd Edition

Doing Justice: Congregations and Community Organizing, 2nd Edition

Doing Justice: Congregations and Community Organizing, 2nd Edition

Doing Justice: Congregations and Community Organizing, 2nd Edition

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Overview

Doing Justice introduces people of faith to congregation-based community organizing rooted in the day-to- day struggles and hopes of urban ministry. Drawing from the authors decades of experience in community organizing ministry and skillfully illustrated with examples, Dennis A. Jacobsen weaves theological and biblical warrants for community organizing into concrete strategies for achieving justice in the public arena and discusses fundamental organizing principles like power, self-interest, and agitation. The second, updated edition includes a new preface and forewords, new sidebars by Grant Stevensen that draw the reader into conversation, an expanded list for further reading, and updated contact information on organizing networks and relevant websites.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781506418810
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress, Publishers
Publication date: 05/01/2017
Edition description: 2nd ed.
Pages: 155
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Dennis Jacobsen pastored Incarnation Lutheran Church in Milwaukee for twenty-six years and for twenty of those years was Director of the Gamaliel National Clergy Caucus, a network of over one thousand religious leaders. He is an active leader in MICAH (Milwaukee Inner city Congregations Allied for Hope) and the author of Doing Justice: Congregations and Community Organizing (Fortress Press).


Bill Wylie-Kellermann is a Methodist pastor serving an Episcopal church in Detroit, the cofounder of Word and World People's School, and founding faculty member of the Seminary Consortium for Urban Pastoral Education (SCUPE) in Chicago. He is the author of Where the Water Goes Around: Beloved Detroit and Seasons of Faith and Conscience: Reflections on Liturgical Direct Action.

Table of Contents

Foreword Bill Wylie-Kellermann xi

Foreword and Introduction to the Conversation Grant Stevensen xix

Preface to the Second Edition xxiii

Preface to the 2001 Edition xxix

1 The World as It Is 1

2 The World as It Should Be 11

3 Engaging the Public Arena 19

4 Congregation-Based Community Organizing 33

5 Power 55

6 Self-Interest 73

7 One-on-Ones 85

8 Agitation 95

9 Metropolitan Organizing 103

10 Building and Sustaining an Organization 115

11 Community 125

12 A Spirituality for the Long Haul 137

Appendix 149

Index 153

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