What's Wrong with the Poor? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook What's Wrong with the Poor? write by Mical Raz. This book was released on 2013-11-11. What's Wrong with the Poor? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the 1960s, policymakers and mental health experts joined forces to participate in President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty. In her insightful interdisciplinary history, physician and historian Mical Raz examines the interplay between psychiatric theory and social policy throughout that decade, ending with President Richard Nixon's 1971 veto of a bill that would have provided universal day care. She shows that this cooperation between mental health professionals and policymakers was based on an understanding of what poor men, women, and children lacked. This perception was rooted in psychiatric theories of deprivation focused on two overlapping sections of American society: the poor had less, and African Americans, disproportionately represented among America's poor, were seen as having practically nothing. Raz analyzes the political and cultural context that led child mental health experts, educators, and policymakers to embrace this deprivation-based theory and its translation into liberal social policy. Deprivation theory, she shows, continues to haunt social policy today, profoundly shaping how both health professionals and educators view children from low-income and culturally and linguistically diverse homes.
Containing the Poor
Containing the Poor - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Containing the Poor write by Silvia Marina Arrom. This book was released on 2000. Containing the Poor available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A social history of poverty in Mexico City, based on a study of a poorhouse designed to incarcerate and train "deserving" beggars to be productive and responsible citizens.
Working with the Poor
Working with the Poor - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Working with the Poor write by Bryant L. Myers. This book was released on 2008-06. Working with the Poor available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How do Christian practitioners express authentically holistic transformational development? This is the challenge to World Vision development practitioners and to all non-government organizations concerned about community development that addresses the whole person and the entire community. This dilemma is rooted in the western assumption that the physical and spiritual realms are separate and distinct from one another. Such a dichotomy leads to a belief among practitioners that restoring people's relationship with God has nothing to do with restoring just political, social and economic relationships among people. Even Christians often believe God's redemptive work takes place in the spiritual realm, while the world is seemingly left to the devil. But the Bible never separates the physical from the spiritual - the rule of God permeates both. In this volume, development practitioners struggle to overcome the problem of dualism and find a way toward a more genuinely holistic approach to helping the poor. Experienced development practitioners reflect on: - Understanding poverty - Participatory learning and action - Appreciative inquiry - The Bible and transformational development - Sustainable economic development - Community transformation in the urban context - Community development and peacebuilding Everyone wanting to engage in transformational development will find new insights and essential learnings from these hands-on practitioners.
Walking with the Poor
Walking with the Poor - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Walking with the Poor write by Bryant L. Myers. This book was released on 2011. Walking with the Poor available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this revised and updated edition of a modern classic, Bryant Myers shows how Christian mission can contribute to dismantling poverty and social evil. Myers demonstrates what is possible when we cease to treat the spiritual and physical domains of life as separate and unrelated.
Always with Us?
Always with Us? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Always with Us? write by Theoharis, Liz. This book was released on 2017. Always with Us? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Jesus's words 'the poor you will always have with you' (Matthew 26:11) are regularly used to suggest that ending poverty is impossible. In this book Liz Theoharis critically examines both the biblical text and the lived reality of the poor to show how this passage is taken out of context and distorted. Poverty is not inevitable, Theoharis argues. It is a systemic sin, and all Christians have a responsibility to partner with the poor to end poverty once and for all"--Jacket
