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<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>An Appalachian community develops a theology of liberation<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781566392112&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="1013_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><!--none//--><h1>It Comes from the People</h1>
<H2>Community Development and Local Theology</H2>
<h3>Mary Ann Hinsdale, Helen M. Lewis and S. Maxine Waller</h3>
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<BR> 400 pp
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</P><h3 align="center"><P><font color="#996633">Co-winner for the Transformational Politics Book Award, American Political Science Association,
1996</font></P>
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<p>The closing of local mines and factories collapsed the economic and social structure of Ivanhoe, Virginia, a small, rural town once considered a dying community "on the rough side of the mountain." Documenting the creative survival techniques developed by Ivanhoe citizens in the aftermath, <I>It Comes from the People </I> tells how this community organized to revitalize the town and demand participation in its future.
<p>Photos, interviews, stories, songs, poems, and scenes from a local theater production tell how this process of rebuilding gradually uncovered the community's own local theology and a growing consciousness of cultural and religious values. A significant aspect of this social transformation in Ivanhoe, as in many rural areas, was the emergence of women as leaders, educators, and organizers, developing new approaches to revive the economy and the people simultaneously.
<p>This book is unusually open about the difficult process faced by outside researchers working with community members to describe community life. It discusses the inherent dilemmas frankly and presents a model for those who engage in community studies and ethnographic research.
<BR> <h2>Excerpt</h2><P>Excerpt available at <a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress">www.temple.edu/tempress</a></p>
<BR> <h2>Contents</h2><P>
<p>Foreword – Robert McAfee Brown
<br>Preface – Louis F. McNeil
<br>Acknowledgments
<p>Introduction – Mary Ann Hinsdale and Helen M. Lewis
<p><b>Part I: The Community Development Process: A Case Study</b>
<br>Introduction – Helen M. Lewis
<br>1. Historical Background
<br>2. Organizing and Mobilizing the Community
<br>3. Confronting and Using Power
<br>4. Getting Educated
<br>5. Using Culture in Community Development
<br>6. Leadership and Organizational Development
<br>7. Insiders, Outsiders, and Participatory Research
<p><b>Part II: Local Theology in a Rural Mountain Community</b>
<br>Introduction – Mary Ann Hinsdale
<br>8. Reading and Using the Bible
<br>9. Theology from the People
<br>10. Ritual and Ethics
<br>11. Emerging Women's Voices: "Unlearning to Not Speak"
<br>12. Ministry: Within and Without
<br>13. The Churches and Community Development
<p>Epilogue – Mary Ann Hinsdale, Helen M. Lewis, and S. Maxine Waller
<br>Appendix A: Context and Methodology
<br>Appendix B: Scenes and Songs from <I>It Came from Within</I>
<br>Notes
<br>Index
</P><BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2>
<table><tr><td valign="top"><img src="/tempress/authors/1013_au1.gif" height="90" width="75"></td><td width="100%" valign="middle"><p><B>Mary Ann Hinsdale</B> is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Boston College.</P></td></tr></table><P><b>Helen M. Lewis</b> is Interim Director of the Appalachian Center at Berea College in Kentucky.</P>
<P><b>S. Maxine Waller</b> is President of the Ivanhoe Civic League and directs community-based student volunteer programs in Virginia.</P>
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