Dwelling with Dignity : Catholic Social Teaching and Homelessness (Enacting Catholic Social Tradition)

Mulligan, Suzanne

Liturgical Press（2025/02発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 156 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780814669853
• DDC分類 261.832592

Full Description

Discover how Catholic Social Teaching can help us to re-think homelessness and our commitment to justice in the world.
 
Homelessness is on the rise globally. As many governments leave the provision of housing to the markets, access to adequate, affordable housing is becoming more precarious. Widening inequality, fueled by a capitalist and neoliberal ideology, is exacerbating the problem. Damaging social narratives deepen the stigma of homelessness, while the systemic injustices causing the housing crises are often overlooked. In Dwelling with Dignity, moral theologian Suzanne Mulligan examines how Catholic Social Teaching can help us to re-think homelessness and our commitment to justice in the world.
 
With its emphasis on the common good, solidarity, and integral human development, we find in the social doctrine of the church not only a robust analysis of social injustice but also a call to proximity with the sufferer. Rooted in the Gospel, it calls us to dismantle the structures that oppress the poor and exclude many from full participation in society. Dwelling with Dignity invites us to construct economies and societies that place the human person at their center, and to work toward human flourishing, personal and communal healing through accompaniment, solidarity, and a commitment to justice in the world.

Contents

Contents
Introduction   1
Chapter One
     The Many Faces of Homelessness   9
Chapter Two
     The Common Good and Social Participation   32
Chapter Three
     Homelessness as a Denial of Human Dignity   64
Chapter Four
     Integral Human Development and Homelessness   89
Chapter Five
     The Art of Encounter, Hospitality, and Accompaniment   119
Acknowledgments   137
Bibliography   139