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Listening to the Spirit: The Radical Social Gospel, Sacred Value, and Broad-Based Community Organizing

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Listening to the Spirit: The Radical Social Gospel, Sacred Value, and Broad-Based Community Organizing - Stauffer, Aaron
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People organize to protect and fight for what they hold most dear. Using auto-ethnography from over a decade of interfaith Broad-based Community Organizing (BBCO) experiences, Listening to the Spirit makes a case for the political role of sacred values in BBCO, especially as they show up in two organizing practices: the "listening campaign" and the "relational meeting." Aaron Stauffer argues that by centering sacred values in democratic politics, these organizing practices can be seen as religious practices, and that BBCO ...

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Listening to the Spirit: The Radical Social Gospel, Sacred Value, and Broad-Based Community Organizing 2024, Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN-13: 9780197755525

Hardcover