ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests that intentional neighbouring provides an opening to consider the contours of solidarity in diversity. It focuses specifically on intentional neighbours' encounters with difference in order to explore in depth the role of faith in developing place-based solidarities. The chapter illustrates the potential for solidarity to emerge among intentional neighbours and their poor and racialized neighbours against structures of oppression. It then focuses on the ways in which their spatial solidarity creates opportunities for meaningful contact with social difference, highlighting this solidarity as a guiding logic for faith-based neighbouring. The chapter explores the writings and philosophies of Christian community development (CCD) and draws out the spatial solidarity that Perkins and other CCD architects require of themselves and others. It also explores the experience of encounter among intentional neighbours who have been living in high-poverty neighbourhoods in Atlanta, Georgia.
