All Categories
    Filters
    Preferences
    Search

    Bread of Life in Broken Britain: Foodbanks, Faith and Neoliberalism

    £17.99
    £19.99
    Price-Match is available in-store for recommended titles in CCCU module handbooks
    ISBN: 9780334058960
    Products specifications
    Attribute nameAttribute value
    AuthorPemberton, Charles
    Pub Date30/04/2020
    BindingPaperback
    Pages224
    Publisher: SCM PRESS
    Ship to
    *
    *
    Shipping Method
    Name
    Estimated Delivery
    Price
    No shipping options
    Availability: Out of Stock

    The return of Christian social service to the centre of British political life through the emergence of the foodbank movement has elicited a range of ecclesial responses. However, in their urgency and brevity these Church responses fail to systematically integrate political critique and social analysis, nor do they undertake a sustained integration of the recent gains in political theology with the realities of our current 'mixed economy of welfare'.

    Charles Pemberton draws on interviews with foodbank users and volunteers to defend and advance a Christian vision of welfare beyond emergency food provision. He suggests that behind the day-to-day struggles of those using foodbanks there are wider much concerns about loneliness, marginalisation and the wholesale fragmentation of society.