Download PDF by Susan Crawford Sullivan: Living Faith: Everyday Religion and Mothers in Poverty

By Susan Crawford Sullivan

ISBN-10: 0226781607

ISBN-13: 9780226781600

ISBN-10: 0226781615

ISBN-13: 9780226781617

Scholars have made city moms dwelling in poverty a spotlight in their examine for many years. those women’s lives will be tricky as they move approximately looking for housing and respectable jobs and struggling to deal with their young children while surviving on welfare or operating at low-wage provider jobs and infrequently dealing with actual or psychological illnesses. yet previously little realization has been paid to a tremendous strength in those women’s lives: religion.

 

Based on in-depth interviews with ladies and pastors, Susan Crawford Sullivan provides bad moms’ usually neglected perspectives. Recruited from numerous social provider courses, lots of the girls don't attend spiritual prone, because of logistical demanding situations or simply because they think stigmatized and undesirable at church. but, she discovers, religious religion frequently performs a powerful function of their lives as they deal with and take a look at to make experience of the demanding situations they face. Supportive non secular congregations prove vital for ladies who're concerned, she reveals, yet understanding everyday faith involves exploring past formal non secular organizations.

 

Offering a cosmopolitan research of the way religion either motivates and from time to time constrains negative moms’ activities, Living Faith finds the methods it serves as a lens by which many view and interpret their worlds.

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