Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. PART I Public Religion and Community Revitalization
5. Talking About Homelessness: Shifting Discourses and the Appeal to Religion in Amer i ca’s Seventh- Largest City 49
6. Becoming More Effective Community Problem Solvers: Faith- Based Organizations, Civic Capacity, and the Homelessness Crisis in Puget Sound 72
7. Disenfranchising the Unhoused: Urban Redevelopment, the Criminalization of Homelessness, and the Peril of Prosperity Theology in Dallas and Beyond 117
8. Religious Responses to Homelessness in the San Francisco Bay Area: Addressing White Supremacy and Racism 140
9. Homelessness and Health in Seattle: Challenges and Opportunities of Faith- Based Services 162
10. PART II Religious Worldviews and the Common Good Re imagined
11. Homelessness and Coast Salish Spiritual Traditions: Cultural Resources for Programmatic Responses in British Columbia 193
12. In These United States, Homelessness Is Who You Are: Examining a Socially Constructed Category through the Lens of an Interfaith Encounter in Downtown Boston 214
13. Religion and Civic Activism Reconsidered: Situating Faith- Based Responses to Homelessness 226
14. On the Passionality of Exile in Medieval Kabbalah: An Invitation to Historicize Con temporary Religious and Public Discourses on Homelessness 250
15. PART III Theological Insights for Homeless Ministries
16. Wounds of Love: Spiritual Care and Homelessness in the Streets of Seattle 277
17. Making Spirits Whole: Homeless Ministries as a Tool for Integral Development 297
18. “And I Saw Googleville Descend from Heaven”: Reading the New Jerusalem in Gentrified Latinx Communities of Silicon Valley 316
19. Offensive Wisdom: Homeless Neighbors, Bible Interpretation, and the Abode of God in Washington, D.C. 331
20. Acknowledgments 351
21. Contributors 353
22. Index 357