Soul Woundedness

Spirituality on the Streets of Seattle

Paul Houston Blankenship-Lai

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Fordham University Press
05 November 2024

Ethics & moral philosophy; Christianity; Christian theology; Poverty & unemployment; Homelessness

A profound exploration into the spiritual beliefs and practices of Seattle's unhoused youth

Soul Woundedness is an intimate, piercing book about everyday life for young adults living on the streets of Seattle. Based on over five years of research and as a participant-observer, Paul Houston Blankenship-Lai presents the personal experiences of ""street kids,"" highlighting how their spiritual beliefs and practices offer them comfort, a sense of community, and a feeling of belonging amidst their struggles. They also demonstrate how spirituality on the streets can alienate people from themselves and the world.

The stories Blankenship-Lai tells here are about how social wounds go soul deep, and how seemingly antireligious spiritual practices, fashioned in an almost unlivable local world, help people create a life still worth living. By paying deep, sustained attention to what spirituality is like on the streets and what difference it makes, Blankenship-Lai uncovers an important, overlooked dimension in the experience and study of homelessness. They invite us to enter these stories and to question how our own spiritual and otherwise practices can help create ""a more loving love.""

Aimed at a diverse audience, Soul Woundedness is a book not merely to educate but to transform. It is particularly relevant for those interested in spirituality's role in addressing social inequities and underscores the importance of spiritual practices in overcoming adversity and promoting social change, making a compelling case for a world where everyone has a place to call home.

By: Paul Houston Blankenship-Lai
Imprint: Fordham University Press
Country of Publication: United States [Currently unable to ship to USA: see Shipping Info]
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 313g
ISBN: 9781531508388
ISBN 10: 1531508383
Pages: 277
Publication Date: 05 November 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Paul Houston Blankenship-Lai is a spiritual companion and Assistant Professor of Spirituality at the Earlham School of Religion, Richmond, Indiana. They have contributed to volumes on spiritual and religious responses to homelessness, including Land of Stark Contrasts: Faith-Based Responses to Homelessness (Fordham, 2021) and Street Homelessness and Catholic Theological Ethics (Orbis, 2019).

Reviews for Soul Woundedness: Spirituality on the Streets of Seattle

Soul Woundedness is a heartfelt and moving book about one of the great social crises of our time. It is also an ethnography about the nature and experience of God.---TM Lurhmann, author of How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others Take this journey with Paul into the lives of our neighbors on the street. He opens himself and us to the inner center of homelessness and our humanity. Through the practice of a deeply loving spirituality, we are invited to share with new understanding in creating caring community. Soul Woundedness should become a classic text in the social sciences and humanities, a staple in religious studies and a basic read in every congregation. Extraordinary, sensitive, revelatory and healing. ---Craig Rennebohm, author of Souls in the Hands of a Tender God