City of dignity : Christianity, liberalism, and the making of global Los Angeles
"Los Angeles, often seen as the bulwark of progressive secular politics, is a place that values immigration, equity, diversity, and perhaps above all human rights. This worldview, Sean Dempsey says, originated with liberal Protestants and other engaged religious organizations in the postwar era...
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Chicago :
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2023.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : city of dignity
- Trials by fire : Father George Dunne and social justice in postwar Los Angeles
- Prophets of the secular city : the churches and the urban crisis in 1960s Los Angeles
- Making the global grassroots : church-based community organizing in 1970s Los Angeles
- Human rights and religious pluralism in multicultural Los Angeles
- City of refugees, city of sanctuary
- Time of visitation : social Christianity and economic justice in post-1992 Los Angeles.