When the Lord's House Closes

Church Repurposing and Urban Community Practice

Melvin Delgado (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

312 Seiten

2024
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-776788-7 (ISBN)

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Functioning churches are an integral part of a community, not only for the active members of a congregation, but in providing myriad other services to the broader population - from food, housing, and other charitable outreach to hosting local events, to serving as election polling locations. So what happens when a church closes? Declining religious affiliation, accelerated modernization, and a number of other demographic, ecological, economic, and political factors mean that church closures are increasingly common in the United States.

When the Lord's House Closes examines the forces behind these closings and provides community-centric recommendations for repurposing church buildings. With a focus on cities and communities of color, Melvin Delgado's analysis highlights the rewards and challenges of urban church repurposing. With the aid of case studies, this book considers whether, and how, community needs and interests can be factored into decisions for how a closed church might be used.

Melvin Delgado is a prolific researcher and author who is interested in cities and the community assets within them. Delgado focuses on many of these assets in the nearly 40 books to his credit-the most recent of which include Sanctuary Cities, Communities, and Organizations: A Nation at the Crossroads (Oxford University Press, 2018), Urban Youth Trauma: Using Community Interventions to Overcome Gun Violence (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019) and Community Health Workers in Action: The Efforts of "Promotores de Salud" in Bringing Health Care to Marginalized Communities (Oxford University Press, 2020). In addition, he has written more than 80 peer-reviewed journal articles. He recently retired from Boston University School of Social Work after over 40 years on the faculty.

Chapter 1: Overview
Chapter 2: Urban Community Practice Realm
Chapter 3: Social Forces Shaping Church Closings Trends
Chapter 4: The Black Church
Chapter 5: The Latino Church
Chapter 6: Boston Case Illustration
Chapter 7: Implications for Community Practice Research
Chapter 8: Implications for Community Practice Education
Chapter 9: Implications for Community Practice

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Erscheinungsdatum	18.09.2024
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	167 x 237 mm
Gewicht	594 g
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Berufs-/Gebührenrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
ISBN-10	0-19-776788-5 / 0197767885
ISBN-13	978-0-19-776788-7 / 9780197767887
Zustand	Neuware