| Habitat for Humanity: Building Private Homes, Building Public Religion Contributor(s): Baggett, Jerome (Author) |
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ISBN: 1566398037 ISBN-13: 9781566398039 Publisher: Temple University Press OUR PRICE: $35.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2000 Annotation: Habitat for Humanity "RM", a grassroots house-building ministry founded in 1976 by evangelical Christians, is one of the best-known and most widely popular nonprofit organizations in operation today. With approximately 1500 local Habitat affiliates in the United States and more than 250 abroad in fifty countries, the organization has constructed more than 85,000 homes primarily by mobilizing concerned citizens, who include about 250,000 American volunteers each year. The author tells the story of Habitat's development and the special fervor it evokes among volunteers and those for whom it builds houses. Through interviews with staff, he also provides a look into the organizational dynamics of Habitat, a non-profit whose religious mission for social change is inevitably affected by the instrumental, bottom-line orientation of the state and the market. Baggett argues that Habitat is an example of a particular social form of religion, the paradenominational organization, that is uniquely adapted to the climate of the modern world. It is one of the vital forms that voluntarism takes today. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Volunteer Work - Religion | Institutions & Organizations - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 267.13 |
| LCCN: 00037806 |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 5.99" W x 9.02" (0.85 lbs) 312 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
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| Publisher Description: Habitat for humanity is an American house-building ministry founded by evangelical Christians, it has constructed 85,000 homes using volunteers. Baggett tells the story of its development and argues that it is a particular social form of religion, a paradenominational organization. |