God And The Welfare State

Author : Lew Daly
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780262262507

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God and the Welfare State by Lew Daly Pdf

Can religion cure poverty? The first book to explore the ideas about God and government behind the faith-based initiative. When the Bush administration's faith-based initiative was introduced in 2001 as the next stage of the "war on poverty," it provoked a flurry of protest for violating the church-state divide. Most critics didn't ask whether it could work. God and the Welfare State is the first book to trace the ideas behind George W. Bush's faith-based initiative from their roots in Catholic natural law theory and Dutch Calvinism to an American think tank, the Center for Public Justice. Comparing Bush's plan with the ways the same ideas have played out in Christian Democratic welfare policies in Europe, the author is skeptical that it will be an effective new way to fight poverty. But he takes the animating ideas very seriously, as they go to the heart of the relationship among religion, government, and social welfare. In the end Daly argues that these ideas—which are now entrenched in federal and state politics—are a truly radical departure from American traditions of governance. Although Bush's initiative roughly overlaps with more conventional conservative efforts to strengthen private power in economic life, it promises an unprecedented shift in the balance of power between secular and religious approaches to social problems and suggests a broader template for "faith-based governance," in which the state would have a much more limited role in social policy.

Author : Lew Daly,E. J. Dionne, Jr.
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781459605879

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God's Economy by Lew Daly,E. J. Dionne, Jr. Pdf

President Obama has signaled a sharp break from many Bush Administration policies, but he remains committed to federal support for religious social service providers. Like George W. Bush's faith-based initiative, though, Obama's version of the policy has generated loud criticism - from both sides of the aisle - even as the communities that stand...

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015019756744

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Not Just for the Poor by Anonim Pdf

Author : Nancy J. Davis,Robert V. Robinson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253007148

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Claiming Society for God by Nancy J. Davis,Robert V. Robinson Pdf

The nonviolent ways orthodox religious groups achieve social power and influence: a “brilliant” study of four movements in the US and abroad (Wendell Bell, Yale University). Gold Medal Winner, Independent Publisher Book Awards Claiming Society for God focuses on common strategies used by religiously orthodox (what some would call “fundamentalist”) movements around the world. Rather than using armed struggle or terrorism, as much of post-9/11 thinking suggests, these movements use a patient, under-the-radar strategy of taking over civil society. Claiming Society for God tells the stories of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, the Sephardi Torah Guardians or Shas in Israel, Comunione e Liberazione in Italy, and the Salvation Army in the United States, showing how these movements, grounded in a communitarian theology, are building massive grassroots networks of religiously based social service agencies, hospitals and clinics, rotating credit societies, schools, charitable organizations, worship centers, and businesses. These networks are already being called states within states, surrogate states, or parallel societies, and in Egypt brought the Muslim Brotherhood to control of parliament and the presidency. This bottom-up, entrepreneurial strategy is aimed at making religion the cornerstone of society. “Sociology at its very best…professionally researched and analyzed, both pragmatic and theoretical, overwhelmingly convincing, and an important corrective to a lot of current beliefs…a great read—fascinating from beginning to end.”—Wendell Bell, Yale University, author of Foundations of Futures Studies

Author : Kees van Kersbergen,Philip Manow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139479202

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Religion, Class Coalitions, and Welfare States by Kees van Kersbergen,Philip Manow Pdf

This book radically revises established knowledge in comparative welfare state studies and introduces a new perspective on how religion shaped modern social protection systems. The interplay of societal cleavage structures and electoral rules produced the different political class coalitions sustaining the three welfare regimes of the Western world. In countries with proportional electoral systems the absence or presence of state–church conflicts decided whether class remained the dominant source of coalition building or whether a political logic not exclusively based on socio-economic interests (e.g. religion) was introduced into politics, particularly social policy. The political class-coalitions in countries with majoritarian systems, on the other hand, allowed only for the residual-liberal welfare state to emerge, as in the US or the UK. This book also reconsiders the role of Protestantism. Reformed Protestantism substantially delayed and restricted modern social policy. The Lutheran state churches positively contributed to the introduction of social protection programs.

Author : Samuel Wells,Russell Rook
Publisher : Canterbury Press
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781786220257

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For Good by Samuel Wells,Russell Rook Pdf

It is often claimed that local churches provide a significant proportion of social care today. This important new study considers the reality of the church's involvement to offer compelling and concrete recommendations for the future. It proposes a transformational model of welfare that breaks free from the default approach of ‘eradicating the five giant evils – squalor, ignorance, want, idleness, and disease’. Instead the authors focus on fostering five assets – relationship, creativity, partnership, compassion, and joy – and empowering people to regain control of their lives.

Author : Fanning, Bryan
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447360346

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Three Roads to the Welfare State by Fanning, Bryan Pdf

The development of social policy in Europe is explored in this accessible intellectual history and analysis of the welfare state. From the Industrial Revolution onwards, the book identifies three important concepts behind efforts to address social concerns in Europe: social democracy, Christian democracy and liberalism. With guides to the political and ideological protagonists and the beliefs and values that lie behind reforms, it traces the progress and legacies of each of the three traditions. For academics and students across social policy and the political economy, this is an illuminating new perspective on the welfare state through the last two centuries.

Author : Kees van Kersbergen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134818334

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Social Capitalism by Kees van Kersbergen Pdf

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : David W. Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0875523013

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Welfare Reformed by David W. Hall Pdf

Leading thinkers including Richard J. Neuhaus, R. C. Sproul, George Grant, E. Calvin Beisner, and F. Edward Payne note the failures of our welfare system and offer a more biblical approach.

Author : Christopher Candland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781009268431

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The Islamic Welfare State by Christopher Candland Pdf

The Islamic Welfare State explains the relationship between lived Islam, everyday human security, and government legitimacy in an Islamic society. Readers see the frequent abuse of Islamic injunctions by government and political parties. But readers also see the essential humanitarian spirit that makes Islam a compelling, community-strengthening faith. Readers appreciate how the humanitarian moral sentiments of Islam both provides everyday human security to millions of people and challenges legitimacy of government by allowing government to focus on protecting Islam rather than providing for the citizenry. The focus is on ground realities, on social welfare workers, and their beneficiaries, mostly patients and students from low-income families, their activities and experiences. The attention to affective politics permits the reader to understand politics and political change in Pakistan and elsewhere in the Muslim world.

Author : Eliza Filby
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781849548885

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God and Mrs Thatcher by Eliza Filby Pdf

A woman demonised by the left and sanctified by the right, there has always been a religious undercurrent to discussions of Margaret Thatcher. However, while her Methodist roots are well known, the impact of her faith on her politics is often overlooked. In an attempt to source the origins of Margaret Thatcher's 'conviction politics', Eliza Filby explores how Thatcher's worldview was shaped and guided by the lessons of piety, thrift and the Protestant work ethic learnt in Finkin Street Methodist Church, Grantham, from her lay-preacher father. In doing so, she tells the story of how a Prime Minister steeped in the Nonconformist teachings of her childhood entered Downing Street determined to reinvigorate the nation with these religious values. Filby concludes that this was ultimately a failed crusade. In the end, Thatcher created a country that was not more Christian, but more secular; and not more devout, but entirely consumed by a new religion: capitalism. In upholding the sanctity of the individual, Thatcherism inadvertently signalled the death of Christian Britain. Drawing on previously unpublished archives, interviews and memoirs, Filby examines how the rise of Thatcher was echoed by the rebirth of the Christian right in Britain, both of which were forcefully opposed by the Church of England. Wide-ranging and exhaustively researched, God and Mrs Thatcher offers a truly original perspective on the source and substance of Margaret Thatcher's political values and the role that religion played in the politics of this tumultuous decade.

Author : Michael Leo Owens
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226642086

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God and Government in the Ghetto by Michael Leo Owens Pdf

In recent years, as government agencies have encouraged faith-based organizations to help ensure social welfare, many black churches have received grants to provide services to their neighborhoods’ poorest residents. This collaboration, activist churches explain, is a way of enacting their faith and helping their neighborhoods. But as Michael Leo Owens demonstrates in God and Government in the Ghetto, this alliance also serves as a means for black clergy to reaffirm their political leadership and reposition moral authority in black civil society. Drawing on both survey data and fieldwork in New York City, Owens reveals that African American churches can use these newly forged connections with public agencies to influence policy and government responsiveness in a way that reaches beyond traditional electoral or protest politics. The churches and neighborhoods, Owens argues, can see a real benefit from that influence—but it may come at the expense of less involvement at the grassroots. Anyone with a stake in the changing strategies employed by churches as they fight for social justice will find God and Government in the Ghetto compelling reading.

Author : Jack D. Douglas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351479059

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The Myth of the Welfare State by Jack D. Douglas Pdf

The Myth of the Welfare Stale is a basic and sweeping explanation of the rise and fall of great powers, and of the profound impacts of these megastates on ordinary lives. Its central theme is the rise of bureaucratic collectivization in American society. It is Douglas's conviction, which he supports with a wealth of detail, that statist bureaucracies produce siagnation, often exacerbated by inflation, which in turn produces the waning of state power.Douglas has his own set of ""isms"" that require concerted attention: mass mediated rationalism, scientism, technologism, credentialism, and expertism. People who make policies have little, if any, awareness of the actual way social processes evolve: agricultural policy is set by people who know little of farming, arid manufacturing policy is set by people who have never set foot on a factory floor. In light of this ""soaring average ignorance,"" it is little wonder that policy-making has Alice-in-Wonderland characteristics and effects.Douglas sees the notion of a welfare state as a contradiction in terms; its widespread insinuation into the culture is made possible by its weak mythological form and benign-sounding characteristics. In fact, welfare states in whatever form they appear have failed in their purpose: to redistribute income or increase real wealth. The megastates are the source of social instability and economic downturn. They grow like a tidal drift. They start out to correct the historical grievances of the laissez-faire states, only to increase the problems they seek to correct. In this, the welfare state is a weakened form of the totalitarian state, producing similarly unhappy results.Professor Douglas has produced a work of ""anti-policy"" - arguing that freedom leavened by an ordinary sense of self-interest and social concern can overcome the shortfalls of the megastates and their myth-making, self-serving, propensities.

Author : Bryan Fanning
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447360322

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Three Roads to the Welfare State by Bryan Fanning Pdf

Bryan Fanning traces the development of European welfare states in this accessible analysis of social change from the Industrial Revolution onwards. The book explores evolutions through the lens of three traditions, social democracy, Christian democracy and liberalism, with insights into the people and beliefs that influenced each.

Author : Robert C. Liebman,Robert Wuthnow
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0202367487

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The New Christian Right by Robert C. Liebman,Robert Wuthnow Pdf

This book of original essays provides an objective and enlightening analysis of the emergence and changing forms of the New Christian Right. The subject is in itself important in contemporary American life, but in addition The New Christian Right reexamines standard theories of social movements and the relationship between religion and politics in America today. The book presents findings from original research, including surveys, personal interviews with elites, analysis of financial documents, reanalysis of existing data, and analysis of direct-mail solicitations and other primary literature. The New Christian Right is balanced and objective rather than partisan and evaluative. Using non-technical and non-jargonistic language, the authors raise questions concerning the nature of religion, the role of status groups, and contemporary directions in American culture.