Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- 1 Social Services, Social Justice, and Faith-Based Organizations in the United States: An Introduction -- 2 A Theology of Presence: Faith Partnerships with U.S. Public Schools -- 3 On the Border: Faith-Based Initiatives and Pentecostal Praxis in Brownsville, Texas -- 4 Faith-Based Development and Community Renaissance: Tradition and Transformation in South Memphis -- 5 Bricks without Straw: Faith-Based Responses to Homelessness in the Hostile City -- 6 Muslims, Medicine, and Mercy: Free Clinics in Southern California -- 7 Culture, History, and Discourse at Tree of Life: A Faith-Based Relief Agency in Mission, South Dakota -- 8 What's Islam Got to Do with It? American Pluralism, Ethnographic Sensibilities, and Faith-Based Refugee Resettlement in Hartford, Connecticut -- 9 Translating Religious Traditions into Service: Lessons from the Faith and Organizations Project -- 10 Religious Organizational Identity and Environmental Demands -- 11 "Bio-pistis": Conversion of Heroin Addicts in Prisons, on Medicine, and with God -- 12 Straight from the Devil: Contours of "the Public" in American Public Health -- Index -- About the Authors.