Description In Women's Work: The Transformational Power of Faith-Based Community Organizing, Susan Engh draws on her own experience and that of the 21 other women she interviewed who work in the field of faith-based community organizing.
Engh starts out by describing how women have been transformed by their participation in organizing.
In the following chapters she shows how these women have been agents of transformation in their various spheres of influence.
Those spheres include religious congregations, national faith bodies, community organizations, and the public arena.
While telling about these various transformations, Engh provides the reader with a basic description of the field of faith-based community organizing, which makes her book a simple manual on how to engage in this kind of public ministry.
What is most unique about Engh's narrative is that all of the stories used to illustrate faith-based organizing methodology come from the first-person experiences of women.
And the women whose stories are shared include a diversity of voices in terms of age, racial and sexual identity, life experiences, and religious traditions.
About the author Susan L.
Engh is program director for congregation-based organizing for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and clergy consultant to the Gamaliel national network.
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Fortress Academic Women's work: the transformational power of faith-based community organizing, hardcover/susan l. engh
