Justin Beaumont

Gebundenes Buch

Faith-based organisations and exclusion in European cities

Beschreibung

This timely book explores the role played by faith-based organisations (FBOs), which are growing in importance in the provision of social services in the European context.

Autor

Justin Beaumont is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen in The Netherlands. He has developed new enquires on social interventions within postsecular cities, as well as faith-based organizations and social justice in urban areas. His articles appear in International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Urban Studies, Environment and Planning A, Space and Polity, Area and TESG. Paul Cloke is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Exeter, UK. Over the last decade he has been involved in research that takes a new look geographies of ethics, focusing in particular on responses to homelessness, the new politics of ethical consumption and the growing significance of faith-based or theo-ethics in contemporary society. Paul is currently engaged in research on postsecularism and faith-based interventions in a range of social and caring arenas.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Policy Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 707g
• ISBN-13: 9781847428349
• ISBN-10: 1847428347
• Artikelnr.: 35563393