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Faith-Based Service-Learning Selected Resources

Source: National Service-Learning Clearinghouse, updated November 2004, February 2008.

Our bibliographies strive to provide the most useful resources on a topic, with links to online full text items and downloadable PDFs when those are available. Library items may be borrowed from the Clearinghouse by Learn and Serve Americagrantees and subgrantees.

This bibliography highlights theoretical perspectives, programs and practices, research, and websites on faith-based service-learning.

For additional resources on these and other service‑learning topics, visit the National Service-Learning Clearinghouse atwww.servicelearning.org.
 
Featured Resources

National Service-Learning Clearinghouse. Faith-Based Hot Topic. Scotts Valley, CA: NSLC, 2003.
http://www.servicelearning.org/instant_info/hot_topics/faith-based/index.php

National Service-Learning Clearinghouse. Faith-Based Links. Scotts Valley, CA: NSLC, n.d.
http://www.servicelearning.org/instant_info/links_collection/
index.php?link_set_id=1&category_id=248

Corporation for National and Community Service. Faith and Communities Engaged in Service (FACES) Toolkit. Washington, DC: CNCS, n.d.[FULL TEXT ONLINE]
http://www.nationalserviceresources.org/faces-toolkit-state-comm

  
Theoretical Perspectives
  Golden, Steven. "Service and the Jewish Tradition." Contact (Spring 1999): 10-11.    [FULL TEXT ONLINE]
http://www.sparkpfs.org/Action/act_GetContent.cfm?ID=191&PAGE=0&FILE=Service and J Trad 1999.pdf&TYPE=68&eWebEditPro=yes

Gunst Heffner, Gail, and Claudia DeVries Beversluis, eds. Commitment and Connection: Service-Learning and Christian Higher Education. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2002.
http://www.servicelearning.org/library/lib_cat/index.php?library_id=5169

Hesser, Gary. Review Essay: Faith-Based Service-Learning: Back to the Future. In Gail G. Heffner and C.D. Beversluis (Eds.) Commitment and Connection: Service-Learning and Christian Higher Education.Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003.

Messinger, Ruth. "Toward a New Concept of Jewish Service." Contact Spring (1999): 8-9. [FULL TEXT ONLINE]
http://www.sparkpfs.org/Action/act_GetContent.cfm?ID=193&PAGE=0&FILE=Toward a new 1999.pdf&TYPE=68&eWebEditPro=yes

National Service Resource Center. Online Resources. "Summary: Using a Faith-Based Organization to Serve as an Intermediary in a Mentoring Program." Scotts Valley, CA: n.d. [FULL TEXT ONLINE]
http://nationalserviceresources.org/node/17556

Public/Private Ventures. Faith Based Institutions and High Risk Youth. Philadelphia: Author, 2000.

Schwarz, Sidney, and Michael Shepard. "Moral Development and Tikkun Olam." Jewish Education News (Spring 1999). [FULL TEXT ONLINE]
http://www.panim.org/events/schwartz_service_learning.html#moral

Service Learning 2000 Center. "Exploring the Spiritual Roots of Service." Service Learning 2000 Center Partnership News (Winter 2000): 1.

Swezey, Erin D. "Grounded in Justice: Service Learning from a Faith Perspective." New Directions for Student Services 50 (1990): 77-90.

Westheimer, Joel. "Community Service Learning: Pursuing Jewish Ideals of Compassion and Justice." Contact (Autumn 2001): 12. [FULL TEXT ONLINE]
http://www.sparkpfs.org/Action/act_GetContent.cfm?ID=196&PAGE=0&FILE=
Community Service Learning 2001.pdf&TYPE=68&eWebEditPro=yes


Wilson, John, and Thomas Janoski. "The Contribution of Religion to Volunteer Work." Sociology of Religion 56 (1995): 137-153.

Youniss, James, and Jeffery A. McLellan. "Catholic Schools in Perspective: Religious Identity, Achievement, and Citizenship." Phi Delta Kappan (October 1999): 105-113.

Youniss, James, Jeffrey A. McLellan, and Miranda Yates. "Religion, Community Service, and Identity in American Youth." Journal of Adolescence 22 (1999): 243-253.

Youniss, James, and Miranda Yates. "Youth Service and Moral-Civic Identity: A Case for Everyday Morality." Educational Psychology Review 11 (1999): 361-376.
  
Programs and Practices
  Anglin, Roland V. Building the Organizations that Build Communities: Strengthening the Capacity of Faith- and Community-Based Development Organizations. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 2004.

Austensen, Blake. A Look At Faith-Based Programs. Tacoma Park, MD: Western Peer Technical Assistance Network. [FULL TEXT PDF]
http://peerta.acf.hhs.gov/pdf/faithprog.pdf

Bentley, Richard J. "Speaking to a Higher Authority: Teaching Philanthropy in Religious Settings." New Directions for Philanthropic Fundraising 2002, no. 36 (2002): 21-36.

Branch, Alvia Y. Faith and Action: Implementation of the National Faith-Based Initiative for High Risk Youth. Philadelphia: Public/Private Ventures, 2002. [FULL TEXT PDF]
http://www.ppv.org/ppv/publications/assets/23_publication.pdf

Chisholm, Linda A. Chisholm. Visions of Service. New York, NY: International Partnership for Service-Learning and Leadership, 2004.

Cohen, Steven. "Community Service: The Nexus of Volunteerism, Philanthropy, and Jewish Identity." Contact (Autumn 2001): 10-11. [FULL TEXT ONLINE]
http://www.sparkpfs.org/Action/act_GetContent.cfm?ID=197&PAGE=0&FILE=
Community Service Nexus 2001.pdf&TYPE=68&eWebEditPro=yes

Cunningham, Jo Lynn. "Service-Learning in Faith-Based Programs for Children and Youth from Low-Income Urban Families." Journal of Teaching in Marriage and Family: Innovations in Family Science Education 1, no. 3 (2001): 28 – 44.

Dalton, Jon C. "Community Service and Spirituality: Integrating Faith, Service, and Social Justice at DePaul University." Journal of College and Character 8, no. 1 (November 2006): 3-9.

Devine, Richard, Joseph A. Favazza, Michael McLain, and Edward Zlotkowski. From Cloister to Commons: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Religious Studies. Washington, DC: American Association for Higher Education, 2002.

Feldman, Steve. "Learning by Doing: Out of the Classroom and Into the Community." Jewish Exponent 197, no. 19 (1995): 6.

Fitzgerald, Paul. "Doing Theology in the City." Cross Currents 51 (2001).

Fleming, James J. "The Emerging Role of Service Learning at Jesuit Universities." Explore, Bannan Institute for Jesuit Education and Christian Values (Spring 1999): 6-9.

Jewish Community Relations Council. Avodah B'Yachad: Service Together. Minneapolis, MN: Author, 2004.

Jucovy, Linda. Amachi: Mentoring Children of Prisoners in Philadelphia. Philadelphia, PA: Public/Private Ventures, 2003. [FULL TEXT ONLINE]
http://www.ppv.org/ppv/publications/assets/21_publication.pdf

Kimelman-Block, J., and Geoffrey Menkowitz. Just: Judaism. Action. Social Change. Rockville, MD: PANIM, 2007.
http://www.servicelearning.org/library/lib_cat/index.php?library_id=7358

Lingo, Susan L. 101 Simple Service Projects Kids Can Do. Cincinnati, OH: Standard Publishing, 2000.

Malada, Geoffrey W. "New at Hebrew School: Service Learning." Jewish Exponent 211, n. 10 (2002): 1.

Paasche-Orlow, Sara. "Creating the Field of Jewish Service Learning." Jewish Education News (Spring 2001). [FULL TEXT ONLINE]
http://www.caje.org/learn/a_paasche-orlow.htm

Roehlkepartain. Eugene C. "Faith Communities: Untapped Allies In Service-Learning." Generator 21 (2003): 20-24.

Roehlkepartain. Eugene C. Kids Have a lot to Give: How Congregations Can Nurture Habits of Giving and Serving for the Common Good. Minneapolis, MN: Search Institute, 1999.

Schwarz, Sidney. "Renewing Jewish Life through Jewish Civics." Journal of Jewish Communal Service (June 2000). [FULL TEXT ONLINE]
http://www.panim.org/events/schwartz_service_learning.html#renewing

United Way of Pennsylvania. "Faith-Based Initiative: The Pennsylvania Experience." Harrisburg, PA: Author. n.d.

Vozzola, Elizabeth C. and Kenneth Long. "But Is It Service? Problems of Participatory Democracy and Justice in a Service Learning Class." Journal of College and Character, 2, 2007.
  
Research Studies
  Dee, Thomas S. "The Effects of Catholic Schooling on Civic Participation." Circle Working Paper 09 (July 2003). [FULL TEXT PDF]
http://www.civicyouth.org/PopUps/WorkingPapers/WP09Dee.pdf

Stewart, Trae. "Outcomes from Catholic Service-Learning." Academic Exchange Quarterly 6 (2002): 123-130.
  
Websites
 

The Center for Faith and Service at the National Crime Prevention Council
http://www.ncpc.org/

The Center for Public Justice
http://www.cpjustice.org/

The Christian Community Development Association 
http://www.ccda.org/ 

The Faith in Communities Initiative of the Hudson Institute
http://www.hudsonfaithincommunities.org/

MACHAR Website devoted to Jewish Youth Philanthropy
http://www.machar.org

The Roundtable on Religion and Social Welfare Policy
http://www.religionandsocialpolicy.org/

Spark: Partnership for Service
http://www.jewishjustice.org/jfsj.php?page=2.11

White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives
http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/fbci

  
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National Service-Learning Clearinghouse.Impacts and Outcomes of Service-Learning: Higher Education Selected Resources. Scotts Valley, CA: Author, 2004.
http://servicelearning.org/instant_info/bibs/cb_bibs/sl_faith-based/index.php

  
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