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Rising Expectations: Urban Congregations, Welfare Reform, and Civic Life
 


The Polis Center Series on Religion and Urban Culture
Rising Expectations: Urban Congregations, Welfare Reform, and Civic Life
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Voices of Faith: Making A Difference in Urban Neighborhoods
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Author:  Arthur E. Farnsley II

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      Rising Expectations examines the factors crucial to the success or failure of faith-based partnerships, by analyzing faith-based projects initiated in Indianapolis. Civic leaders are calling for a new role for faith-based groups, especially congregations, in public life�in building social capital, delivering social services, and spearheading community development. Partnerships among government, foundations, and the faith-community are innovative, and many appear to offer promise. However, many factors are crucial to the success or failure of these partnerships. Rising Expectations challenges many of the assumptions on which these reforms are based and offers a realistic assessment of what congregations can and cannot reasonably be expected to do. Rising Expectations is the first in The Polis Center Series on Religion and Urban Culture from Indiana University Press.


 
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