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 author’s 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.
- Publisher Fortress Press
- Format Paperback
- ISBN 9781506418810
- eBook ISBN 9781506418827
- Dimensions 6 x 9
- Pages 186
- Publication Date May 1, 2017
Contents
Foreword by Bill Wylie-Kellermann
Foreword and Introduction to the Conversation by Grant Stevensen
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the 2001 Edition
1. The World as It Is
2. The World as It Should Be
3. Engaging the Public Arena
4. Congregation-Based Community Organizing
5. Power
6. Self-Interest
7. One-on- Ones
8. Agitation
9. Metropolitan Organizing
10. Building and Sustaining an Organization
11. Community
12. A Spiritualty for the Long Haul
Appendix: National Networks
Index
Samples
Foreword by Bill Wylie-Kellermann
Foreword and Introduction to the Conversation by Grant Stevensen