| Description |
xv, 361 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 328-346) and indexes. |
| Contents |
There's no place like home -- Culture of displacement, amnesia, and homelessness -- Which memories, what home? -- Biblical homecoming -- Kenneth and Kenny again -- Meaning of home -- Categories of displacement -- Problem of boundaries -- Necessity of boundaries -- Phenomenology of home -- Ambivalence of home -- Socioeconomic homelessness -- Streetcar sped away -- Nobody's child -- Homelessness : a socioethical crisis -- Why socioeconomic homelessness? : a structural analysis -- Homelessness : a socioethical crisis revisited -- Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery -- From housing to homemaking -- Shape of worldviews -- Houses and homes -- Housing for homemaking -- Economics for homemaking -- Rights, public policy, and the church -- More than bricks and mortar -- Ecological homelessness -- Plight of planet earth -- Why ecological homelessness? : a sociocultural analysis -- Home planet : the earth as Oikos -- Shalom and the character of earthkeeping -- Biblical vision of Shalom -- Virtues of Shalom -- Practices of earthkeepers -- Christians as aching visionaries -- Postmodern homelessness -- Double homesickness "over the rainbow" -- Homeless home constructors -- Homelessness, migrancy, and the tourist self -- On the road to nowhere -- Postmodern migrants or homeless consumers? -- Indwelling God and the sojourning community -- God of love and creation as other -- God of grace and creation as gift -- God of goodness and creation as good -- Christ-followers as sojourners -- Homeward bound -- Redemptive homecoming -- Hope, home, and imagination -- Homemaking father. |
| ISBN |
9780802846921 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0802846920 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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