Book Launch: Empowering People Through Encounter

Join us for the launch of Empowering People through Encounter: Catholic Social Teaching and Community Organizing, the fifth volume in the institute’s Enacting Catholic Social Tradition series. Authors Erin Brigham and Maureen H. O’Connell will speak about their book, followed by a Q&A and book signing.

Light refreshments will be served.

Empowering People through Encounter presents the Catholic Social Tradition as an embodied, practical, and inspiring way to connect faith and action. It highlights the dispositions, skills, and methods of faith-based community organizing through a combination of interviews with Catholic organizers in the field and case studies of campaigns from a variety of national contexts. Focusing on the relational praxis of organizing provides an opportunity for readers to encounter Catholic Social Thought as an integrated vision that gets lived on the ground by those closest to the pain of injustices rather than a set of abstract principles invoked by those at a distance.