Congregations & Public Life

Congregations and Public Life is a major national study of the impact of democratic engagement on Latino, African-American, Anglo, and immigrant congregations in low- and middle-income settings in thirteen cities. Through interviews, surveys, and participant-observation in 44 mainline Protestant, Catholic, Evangelical, historic Black Protestant, Jewish, Pentecostal, Unitarian-Universalist, Muslim, and Unity congregations, we examine the dynamics through which faith-based community organizing contributes to strengthening congregations (or fails to do so). This project is done in collaboration with Interfaith Funders of New York, and funded by the Ford Foundation. Initial publications available at www.unm.edu/~rlwood ; book manuscript under development.

Funded by:

Ford Foundation
Interfaith Funders