Living Faith - Everyday Religion and Mothers in Poverty

Scholars have made urban mothers living in poverty a focus of their research for decades. Offering an analysis of how faith both motivates and at times constrains poor mothers' actions, this book reveals the ways it serves as a lens through which many view and interpret their worlds.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Susan Crawford Sullivan is assistant professor of sociology and an Edward Bennett Williams Fellow at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Zusammenfassung

Scholars have made urban mothers living in poverty a focus of their research for decades. Offering an analysis of how faith both motivates and at times constrains poor mothers' actions, this book reveals the ways it serves as a lens through which many view and interpret their worlds.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Susan Crawford Sullivan, Sullivan Susan Crawford
• Verlag: University Of Chicago Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 13.02.2012
• EAN: 9780226781600
• ISBN: 978-0-226-78160-0
• Seiten: 288
• Serien: Morality and Society Series; Morality and Society (Hardcove; Morality and Society Series; Morality and Society (Hardcove
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Religion/Theologie > Christentum; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Religion: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, RELIGION / Sexuality & Gender Studies, Poverty & unemployment, Christian life & practice, Gender studies: women, Christian life and practice, Religion and beliefs, Gender studies: women and girls, RELIGION / Christian Living / Women's Interests, Poverty and precarity