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Neighborhood Revitalization and Faith Communities
Theology and Social Justice
Economics and Economic Theology
The Civil Rights Movement
The South
Neighborhood Revitalization and Faith Communities
Center for Community Change. Organizing for Neighborhood Development: A Handbook for Citizen Groups. 1985. (Many other publications at their website: www.communitychange.org)
Grassroots Fund-Raising/Chardon Press and Applied Resource Center.
Claman, Victor & Butler, David. Acting on Your Faith: Congregations Making a Difference, A Guide to Service and Social Action. Boston: Insights, 1994.
Nored, Ron E., Sr. Beyond the Walls: Meeting Community Needs, Finding Necessary Resources. AMEC Publishing, Nashville, 2002.
Nored, Ron E., Sr. Reweaving the Fabric: How Congregations and Communities Can Come Together to Build Their Neighborhoods. Montgomery, AL: Black Belt Press, 1999.
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Theology and Social Justice
Atherton, John. (ed.) Christian Social Ethics: A Reader. Pilgrim Press, 1994.
Bennett, John C. Christian Ethics and Social Policy. Scribners, 1949.
Barndt, Joseph. Dismantling Racism: The Continuing Challenge to White America. Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1991.
Cone, James. God of the Oppressed. San Francisco: Harper, 1975.
Dunn, James D.G. Jesus' Call to Discipleship. Cambridge, 1992.
Dunn, James D.G. The Justice of God. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1993.
Felder, Cain Hope. Editor. Stony the Road We Trod: African American Biblical Interpretation. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1991.
Fluker, Walter E. They Looked for A City: A Comparative Analysis of the Ideal of Community in the Thought of Howard Thurman and Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: University Press of America, 1989.
Heschel, Abraham J. The Prophets. 2 vols. Harper and Row, 1962.
Heschel, Abraham J. Between God and Man. Free Press, 1959, 1997.
Kammer, Fred. Doing Faith Justice: An Introduction to Catholic Social Teaching. Paulist Press, 1991.
King, Dr. Martin Luther, Jr. Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? Beacon Press, 1975.
Küng, Hans. A Global Ethic for Global Politics and Economics. New York: Oxford, 1998.
Krusche, Werner and Moltmann, Jurgen. Guilt and Forgiveness: The Basis of Christian Peace Negotiation / Forgiveness and Politics: Forty Years After the Stuttgart Confession. Case Study Number 2 of the Forgiveness and Politics Study Project. July 1984.
Moltmann, Jürgen. Crucified God. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 1994.
Moltmann, Jürgen. On Human Dignity: Political Theology and Ethics. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1984.
Moltmann, Jürgen. The Way of Jesus Christ. Minneapolis, Augsburg Fortress Press, 1994.
Moltmann, Jürgen. Theology of Hope. Minneapolis, Augsburg Fortress Press, 1994.
Munby, Denys L. God and the Rich Society. Oxford University Press, 1961.
National Conference of Catholic Bishops, Economic Justice for All: Pastoral Letter on Catholic Social Teaching and the U.S. Economy. Washington, US Catholic Conference, 1986.
Schreiter, Robert J., C.PP.S. The Ministry of Reconciliation: Spirituality & Strategies. Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 2004.
Reconciliation: Mission & Ministry in a Changing Social Order. Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 2002.
Schriver, Donald W., Jr. An Ethic for Enemies: Forgiveness in Politics. New York: Oxford, 1995.
Thurman, Howard. Jesus and the Disinherited. Boston: Beacon Press, 1997 Reprint.
Tutu, Desmond Mpilo. Archbishop of South Africa. No Future Without Forgiveness. New York: Doubleday, 2000.
Volf, Miroslav. Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness and Reconciliation. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1996.
Washington, James, W. A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Harper and Row, 1986.
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Economics and Economic Theology
Atherton, John. Christianity and the Market. London: SPCK, 1991.
Fox, Richard Wightman and T.J. Jackson Lears, (eds). The Culture of Consumption: Critical Essays in American History, 1880-1980. New York: Pantheon, 1983.
Galbraith, John Kenneth. Economics in Perspective: A Critical History. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987.
Greider, William. One World, Ready or Not. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997.
Heilbroner, Robert and Lester Thurow. Economics Explained: Everything You Need to Know about the Economy and Where it is Going. New York, Simon and Schuster.
Küng, Hans. A Global Ethic for Global Politics and Economics. New York: Oxford, 1998.
Kuttner, Robert. Everything for Sale: The Virtues and Limits of Markets. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.
Meeks, M. Douglas. God the Economist. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1990.
Meeks, M. Douglas., editor. The Portion of the Poor: Good News to the Poor in the Wesleyan Tradition. Nashville: Kingswood Books, Abindon Press, 1995.
Selby, Bishop Peter. "Money: God's Principal Rival." Read online at http://www.thewitness.org/menuconvention.html. Summation of his book: Grace and Mortgage: The Language of Faith and the Debt of the World (1997).
Thurow, Lester. The Future of Capitalism. New York, Penguin Books, 1996.
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The Civil Rights Movement
Branch, Taylor. Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988.
Branch, Taylor. Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997.
Egerton, John. Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South. Chapel Hill, UNC Press, 1994.
Eskew, Glenn T. But for Birmingham: The Local and National Movements in the Civil Rights Struggle. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
Garrow, David J. Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. New York: William Morrow, 1986.
Harding, Vincent. Martin Luther King: The Inconvenient Hero. Orbis, 1996.
King, Dr. Martin Luther, Jr. Why We Can’t Wait. New York: Mentor, 1963, 1964. (Includes "Letter From a Birmingham City Jail.")
Mills, Kay. This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer. New York: Plume Books, 1993.
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The South
Black, Earle and Black, Merle. Politics and Society in the South. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987.
Barnard, William D. Dixiecrats and Democrats: Alabama Politics 1942-1950. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1974.
Dabbs, James McBride. Who Speaks for the South? New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1964.
Flynt, Wayne. Poor But Proud: Alabama’s Poor Whites. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama, 1989.
Hill, Samuel S. Religion and the Solid South. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1972.
The South and the North in American Religion. Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press, 1980.
Mathews, Donald G. Religion in the Old South. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977.
Washington, James, W. A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Harper and Row, 1986.
