Melvin Delgado

When the Lord's House Closes

Church Repurposing and Urban Community Practice. Sprache: Englisch.
gebunden , 312 Seiten
ISBN 0197767885
EAN 9780197767887
Veröffentlicht 1. Juli 2025
Verlag/Hersteller Oxford University Press
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When the Lord's House Closes examines the forces behind the increase in church closings and provides community-centric recommendations for repurposing church buildings. With a focus on cities and communities of color, Melvin Delgado's analysis highlights the rewards and challenges of urban church repurposing. With the aid of case studies, this book considers whether, and how, community needs and interests can be factored into decisions for how a closed church might be used.

Portrait

Melvin Delgado is a prolific researcher and author who is interested in cities and the community assets within them. Delgado focuses on many of these assets in the nearly 40 books to his credit-the most recent of which include Sanctuary Cities, Communities, and Organizations: A Nation at the Crossroads (Oxford University Press, 2018), Urban Youth Trauma: Using Community Interventions to Overcome Gun Violence (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019) and Community Health Workers in Action: The Efforts of "Promotores de Salud" in Bringing Health Care to Marginalized Communities (Oxford University Press, 2020). In addition, he has written more than 80 peer-reviewed journal articles. He recently retired from Boston University School of Social Work after over 40 years on the faculty.

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