Agency of Hope: Auckland City Mission 19202020: The Story of the Auckland City Mission 1920-2020 - Softcover

Peter Lineham

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0995131880 ISBN 13: 9780995131880

Publisher: Massey University Press, 2020

Synopsis

A CENTURY OF AUCKLANDERS HELPING AUCKLANDERS. This lively history by well-known historian Peter Lineham features over 100 photographs and takes readers inside a remarkable organisation working at the front lines of a society in which poverty has become entrenched. For 100 years the Auckland City Mission has been the lynchpin of the citys compassion towards and support for the poor, the marginalised and the homeless. Perhaps the best known of the citys charitable organisations many thousands of Aucklanders have been involved with the work of the Mission. Its story, marked attimes by struggle, is colourful and peopled by memorable characters.

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About the Author

Professor Peter Lineham has for many years written and lectured extensively on the religious history of New Zealand, although his earliest work, still continuing, was on the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century history of British Protestant sects. His recent work has focused on broader trends in contemporary religion, although he has not lost his fascination with the nineteenth-century adjustment of religion within New Zealand. His most recent book is Destiny: the Life and Times of a Self-made Apostle (Penguin, 2013). He is currently engaged in various projects on new religious movements in New Zealand, and on Brethren, Protestant, Evangelical and Anglican history.

Edition details

• Publisher: Massey University Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0995131880
• ISBN 13: 9780995131880
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288