How do people practice religion in their everyday lives? Courtney Bender spent more than a year working as a volunteer for a non-profit organisation called God's Love We Deliver, helping to prepare food for people with AIDs, this volume tells the story of that time.
How do people practice religion in their everyday lives? Courtney Bender spent more than a year working as a volunteer for a non-profit organisation c...
Wild parties, late nights, and lots of sex, drugs, and alcohol. Many assume these are the things that define an American teenager s first year after high school. But the reality is really quite different. As Tim Clydesdale reports in "The First Year Out, " teenagers generally manage the increased responsibilities of everyday life immediately after graduation effectively. But, like many good things, this comes at a cost. Tracking the daily lives of fifty young people making the transition to life after high school, Clydesdale reveals how teens settle intomanageable patterns of substance...
Wild parties, late nights, and lots of sex, drugs, and alcohol. Many assume these are the things that define an American teenager s first year afte...
Research physicians face intractable dilemmas when they consider introducing new medical procedures. Innovations carry the promise of preventing or curing life-threatening diseases, but they can also lead to injury or even death. How have clinical scientists made high-stakes decisions about undertaking human tests of new medical treatments? In "Lesser Harms," Sydney Halpern explores this issue as she examines vaccine trials in America during the early and mid-twentieth century. Today's scientists follow federal guidelines for research on human subjects developed during the 1960s and...
Research physicians face intractable dilemmas when they consider introducing new medical procedures. Innovations carry the promise of preventing or cu...
Long considered the lifeblood of urban African American neighborhoods, churches are held up as institutions dedicated to serving their surrounding communities. Omar McRoberts's work in Four Corners, however, reveals a very different picture. One of the toughest neighborhoods in Boston, Four Corners also contains twenty-nine churches, mostly storefront congregations, within its square half-mile radius. In McRoberts's hands, this area teaches a startling lesson about the relationship between congregations and neighborhoods that will be of interest to everyone concerned with the revitalization...
Long considered the lifeblood of urban African American neighborhoods, churches are held up as institutions dedicated to serving their surrounding com...
In recent years, as government agencies have encouraged faith-based organizations to help ensure social welfare, many black churches have received grants to provide services to their neighborhoods' poorest residents. This collaboration, activist churches explain, is a way of enacting their faith and helping their neighborhoods. But as Michael Leo Owens demonstrates in "God and Government in the Ghetto," this alliance also serves as a means for black clergy to reaffirm their political leadership and reposition moral authority in black civil society. Drawing on both survey data and...
In recent years, as government agencies have encouraged faith-based organizations to help ensure social welfare, many black churches have received gra...
The reach of the Catholic Church is arguably greater than that of any other religion, extending across diverse political, ethnic, class, and cultural boundaries. But what is it about Catholicism that resonates so profoundly with followers who live under disparate conditions? What is it, for instance, that binds parishioners in America with those in Mexico? For Joseph M. Palacios, what unites Catholics is a sense of being Catholic a social imagination that motivates them to promote justice and build a better world. In "The Catholic Social Imagination, " Palacios gives readers a feeling...
The reach of the Catholic Church is arguably greater than that of any other religion, extending across diverse political, ethnic, class, and cultur...
How do people become activists for causes they care deeply about? Many people with similar backgrounds, for instance, fervently believe that abortion should be illegal, but only some of them join the pro-life movement. By delving into the lives and beliefs of activists and nonactivists alike, Ziad W. Munson is able to lucidly examine the differences between them. Through extensive interviews and detailed studies of pro-life organizations across the nation, Munson makes the startling discovery that many activists join up before they develop strong beliefs about abortion in fact, some are...
How do people become activists for causes they care deeply about? Many people with similar backgrounds, for instance, fervently believe that abortion ...
Why do people keep fighting for social causes in the face of consistent failure? Why do they risk their physical, emotional, and financial safety on behalf of strangers? How do these groups survive high turnover and emotional burnout? To explore these questions, Erika Summers Effler undertook three years of ethnographic fieldwork with two groups: anti death penalty activists STOP and the Catholic Workers, who strive to alleviate poverty. In both communities, members must contend with problems that range from the broad to the intimately personal. Adverse political conditions, internal...
Why do people keep fighting for social causes in the face of consistent failure? Why do they risk their physical, emotional, and financial safety on b...
Although the subject of federally mandated Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) has been extensively debated, we actually do not know much about what takes place when they convene. The story of how IRBs work today is a story about their past as well as their present, and "Behind Closed Doors "is the first book to meld firsthand observations of IRB meetings with the history of how rules for the treatment of human subjects were formalized in the United States in the decades after World War II.Drawing on extensive archival sources, Laura Stark reconstructs the daily lives of scientists,...
Although the subject of federally mandated Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) has been extensively debated, we actually do not know much about what...
Although the subject of federally mandated Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) has been extensively debated, we actually do not know much about what takes place when they convene. The story of how IRBs work today is a story about their past as well as their present, and Behind Closed Doors is the first book to meld firsthand observations of IRB meetings with the history of how rules for the treatment of human subjects were formalized in the United States in the decades after World War II. Drawing on extensive archival sources, Laura Stark reconstructs the daily lives of scientists,...
Although the subject of federally mandated Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) has been extensively debated, we actually do not know much about what ta...
