People are the subject : stories of urban rural mission
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/catalog1264
- Author
- Howell, Leon
- Publication Date
- 1980
- Material Type
- Book
- Location
- Trinity College (Graham Library)
- Call Number
- HN 31 H68 1980
- Author
- Howell, Leon
- Place of Publication
- Geneva
- Publisher
- Commission on World Mission and Evangelism, World Council of Churches
- Publication Date
- 1980
- Physical Description
- viii, 80 p. : ill., maps, ports.
- Material Type
- Book
- Notes
- "The stories gathered here have come from Christians related to a network of people who seek missionary faithfulness in urban, industrial and rural settings. In one way or another they participate in a worldwide fellowship sustained through national and regional contact groups related to the WCC Commission on World Mission and Evangelism's Urban Rural Mission office." -- Intro., p. [v].
- Contents: Bombay : Three Million People Seek Housing Security -- Vieques : David versus Goliath in Puerto Rico -- Switzerland : Marginalization amid Prosperity -- Questions in a Zambian Village -- Canadian Urban Training : Beyond the Familiar -- "Workers are People" : UIM in South Korea -- Strangers in our Midst : Korean Workers in Germany -- USA : Old Issues, New Forms -- Intensive Social Service in Cordoba, Argentina -- Crossroads : Community Survival in South Africa.
- Appendices include: 1: Mission and Evangelism : a URM Position Paper -- 2: Decolonizing Theology.
- Added Entry
- World Council of Churches. Commission on World Mission and Evangelism
- Subjects
- Church and social problems
- Christianity and politics
- Christianity and justice
- World Council of Churches. Urban Rural Mission
- World Council of Churches. Urban Industrial Mission
- Housing - India
- Housing - Religious aspects - Christianity
- Military bases, American - Vieques, Puerto Rico
- Alien labor - Switzerland
- Alien labor - Religious aspects - Christianity
- Economic justice - Religious aspects - Christianity
- Women - Zambia
- Canadian Urban Training Project
- Labor laws and legislation - Korea
- Church and labor
- Alien labor - Germany
- Koreans - Germany
- Labor laws and legislation - United States
- Church and social problems - Argentina
- Social justice - Argentina
- Crossroads (South Africa0
- Apartheid - Religious aspects - Christianity
- ISBN
- 2-8254-0638-4
- Call Number
- HN 31 H68 1980
- Location
- Trinity College (Graham Library)