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Warren, Mark. "Community Organizing in Britain: The Political Engagement of Faith-based Social Capital" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Marriott Hotel, Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Philadelphia, PA, Aug 12, 2005 <Not Available>. 2008-10-23 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p19944_index.html>

Warren, M. R. , 2005-08-12 "Community Organizing in Britain: The Political Engagement of Faith-based Social Capital" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Marriott Hotel, Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Philadelphia, PA Online <PDF>. 2008-10-23 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p19944_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: Can religious communities provide the backbone for efforts to revitalize civil society in the inner city in other advanced industrial countries, as they have in the United States? Community organizing in the U.S. has been shown to be one of the most effective ways to rebuild democratic life and generate political power for low income communities of color. Scholars have argued that the success of modern community organizing, the most direct inheritor of the Alinskyite tradition, lies, in large part, in its ability to engage the social capital embedded in religious institutions. Less attention has been paid to the interface between faith communities and political institutions. I explore this issue by examining the effort to apply an American community organizing strategy in Britain. Through documentary sources, interviews with participants, and participant observation I analyze the experience of the British Citizens Organising Foundation (COF), which is affiliated to the U.S.-based Industrial Areas Foundation. I find that although the COF has been able to attain a greater degree of national influence than its American counterpart, its local foundations remain quite weak. I show that the relative strength of various kinds of religious communities involved in the COF only partly explains this result. Their orientation towards political engagement also matters, and so does the relative power of local versus national political institutions in Britain. I conclude with a discussion of the implications of this research for our understanding of the role of social capital for revitalizing democratic life.

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