Bowery Mission (eBook)

Grit and Grace on Manhattan’s Oldest Street

Jason Storbakken (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
176 Seiten
Plough Publishing House (Verlag)
978-0-87486-255-3 (ISBN)

Infos

A colorful history of lives rescued on New York City's infamous boulevard of broken dreams.The Bowery has long been one of New York City's most notorious streets, a magnet for gangsters, hucksters, and hobos. And despite sweeping changes, it is still all too often the end of the road for troubled war veterans, drug addicts, the mentally ill, the formerly incarcerated, and others generally down on their luck. Against this backdrop, for 140 years, Christians of every stripe have been coming together at the Bowery Mission to offer hearty meals, hot showers, clean beds, warm clothes - and, for thousands of homeless over the years, the help they need to get off the streets and back on their feet.Jason Storbakken, a recent Bowery director, retraces that colorful history and profiles some of the illustrious characters that have made the Bowery an iconic New York institution. His book offers a lens through which to better understand the changing faces of homelessness, of American Christianity, and of New York City itself - all of which converge daily at the Bowery Mission's red doors.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.11.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Pastoraltheologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Abuse • addiction • american christianity • Child Abuse • Childhood Trauma • Christian Herald • clothe the naked • Deinstitutionalization • Ecumenism • evangelicalism • feed the hungry • Gentrification • homeless ministry • Homelessness • house the homeless • Hygiene • interdenominational • Mental Illness • New York’s oldest street • nondenominational • PTSD • Recidivism • Redemption • rescue mission • Social Gospel • soup kitchen • the bowery • Transformation • transitional programs • Urban • urban mission
• ISBN-10: 0-87486-255-8 / 0874862558
• ISBN-13: 978-0-87486-255-3 / 9780874862553