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Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Faith in Action: Faith-based Organizations, Welfare and Politics in the Contemporary City -- Faith-based Action Against Poverty: Christians Against Poverty and Church Action on Poverty -- Practical Theology and Christian Responses to Drug Addiction -- Re-engaging With the Margins: The Salvation Army 614UK Network and Incarnational Praxis -- Urban Expression: Convictional Communities and Urban Social Justice -- Faith-based Youth Work in Local Communities: The Teenbridge Project -- The July Project and Big Saturdays: a Church (St Paul's, Salisbury, UK) in its Local Community -- Aid, Presence, Protest: Working Group, The Poor Side of the Netherlands/EVA -- Adventures at a Border Crossing: The Society for Diaconal Social Work in Rotterdam, The Netherlands -- Faith Community Works in Sweden -- Central Welfare Office of the Jews in Germany -- Endnotes -- Hospitality and Community after Christendom.

After pointedly rejecting the idea that democracy must rest on orthodox religious faith, Deneen asks whether, in our passion for a democratic Utopia, we hold 'a different faith in its place-a faith in democracy itself that implicitly raises humanity to the position of God and understands democracy as a vessel of salvation and redemption' (p. 287). Throughout this timely work, Deneen pays close scholarly attention (witness his 71 pages of end notes) to theorists, advocates, critics and practitioners of democracy all the way from Protagoras, by way of Abraham Lincoln, to postmoderns such as Richard Rorty.