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Shelter Theology

The Religious Lives of People without Homes
  • ISBN-13: 9781506471556
  • Publisher: 1517 MEDIA
    Imprint: FORTRESS PRESS
  • By Susan J. Dunlap
  • Price: AUD $56.99
  • Stock: 12 in stock
  • Availability: Order will be despatched as soon as possible.
  • Local release date: 02/12/2021
  • Format: Hardback (222.00mm X 146.00mm) 165 pages Weight: 318g
  • Categories: Christian theology [HRCM]
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Susan J. Dunlap offers the theological fruits of time spent working as a chaplain with people without homes. After depicting the local history of her small southern city, she describes the prayer service she co-leads in a homeless shelter. Clients offer words of faith and encouragement that take the form of prayer, sayings, testimony, song, and short sermons. Dunlap describes both these forms of expression and their theological content. She asserts that these forms and beliefs are a means of survival and resistance in a hostile world. The ways they serve these purposes are further demonstrated in life stories told as testimonies, incorporating scripture, sayings, oral tradition, and popular culture. Dunlap concludes that white supremacy and neoliberalism have produced the problem of homelessness in America and are forms of idolatry. The faith and practices shared at the shelter are spiritual and theological resources for people in the grip of and seeking freedom from this idolatry. Claiming that only God can free us from bondage to idolatry and that to draw close to the poor is to draw close to God, Dunlap calls for proximity to people living without homes who are practicing their faith amid poverty.
Susan J. Dunlap is a PCUSA minister and chaplain at Urban Ministries of Durham, North Carolina. She teaches the arts of pastoral care at Duke Divinity School and administers the MDiv/MSW Dual Degree Program. She has served churches in Maryland and North Carolina and has written two books: Counseling Depressed Women and Caring Cultures: How Congregations Respond to the Sick. Dunlap lives with her family in Durham.
Preface Introduction Chapter One: Poverty Wounds Chapter Two: Form Matters Chapter Three: Living Beliefs Chapter Four: Personal Resistance Narratives Chapter Five: A Theological Reading of the Shelter
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