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Elusive Togetherness : Church Groups Trying to Bridge America's Divisions

Lichterman, Paul [Verfasser]

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2011

Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.

1 Online-Ressource (348 pages)

978-1-4008-4295-7 ; 1-4008-4295-6 ; 1-283-38003-X ; 978-1-283-38003-4 ; 978-0-691-09651-3

 

USA  Religiöse Gemeinschaft  Soziales Engagement 

Many scholars and citizens alike have counted on civic groups to create broad ties that bind society. Some hope that faith-based civic groups will spread their reach as government retreats. Yet few studies ask how, if at all, civic groups reach out to their wider community. Can religious groups--long central in civic America--create broad, empowering social ties in an unequal, diverse society? Over three years, Paul Lichterman studied nine liberal and conservative Protestant-based volunteering and advocacy projects in a mid-sized American city. He listened as these groups tried to create bridg.