Empathy Beyond US Borders The Challenges of Transnational Civic Engagement Adler

Empathy Beyond US Borders\nby Gary J. Adler Jr\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Gary J. Adler Jr\nTitle: Empathy Beyond US Borders\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Social theory\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press\nPublication year: 2019\nISBN-13: 9781108474566\nISBN-10: 110847456X\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nHow do middle-class Americans become aware of distant social problems and act against them? US colleges, congregations, and seminaries increasingly promote immersion travel as a way to bridge global distance, produce empathy, and increase global awareness. But does it? Drawing from a mixed methods study of a progressive, religious immersion travel organization at the US-Mexico border, Empathy Beyond US Borders provides a broad sociological context for the rise o.