Who Will Provide The Changing Role Of Religion In American Social Welfare

Author : Mary Jo Bane
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000010411

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Who Will Provide? The Changing Role Of Religion In American Social Welfare by Mary Jo Bane Pdf

Leading scholars examine how the church, community organizations, and the government must work together to provide for America's poor in the aftermath of welfare reform. . Who will provide for Americas children, elderly, and working families? Not since the 1930s has our nation faced such fundamental choices over how to care for all its citizens. Now, amid economic prosperity, Americans are asking what government, business, and non-profit organizations can and can’t do and what they should and shouldn’t be asked to do. As both political parties look to faith-based organizations to meet material and spiritual needs, the center of this historic debate is the changing role of religion. These essays combine a fresh perspective and detailed analysis on these pressing issues. They emerge from a three-year Harvard Seminar sponsored by the Center for the Study of Values in Public Life that brought together scholars in public policy, government, religion, sociology, law, education, and non-profit leadership. By putting the present moment in broad historical perspective, these essays offer rich insights into the resources of faith-based organizations, while cautioning against viewing their expanded role as an alternative to the government’s responsibility. In Who Will Provide? community leaders, organizational managers, public officials, and scholars will find careful analysis drawing on a number of fields to aid their work of devising better partnerships of social provision locally and nationally. It was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Book of 2001..

Author : Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367213680

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Who Will Provide? the Changing Role of Religion in American Social Welfare by Taylor & Francis Group Pdf

Author : Mary Jo Bane,Brent Coffin,Ronald Thiemann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367216493

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Who Will Provide? the Changing Role of Religion in American Social Welfare by Mary Jo Bane,Brent Coffin,Ronald Thiemann Pdf

In Who Will Provide? community leaders, organizational managers, public officials, and scholars will find careful analysis drawing on a number of fields to aid their work of devising better partnerships of social provision locally and nationally.

Author : John P. Bartkowski,Helen A. Regis
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2003-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814799017

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Charitable Choices by John P. Bartkowski,Helen A. Regis Pdf

An ethnographic study of faith-based poverty relief programs in 30 congregations in the rural south.

Author : Miguel Glatzer,Paul Christopher Manuel
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783030447076

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Faith-Based Organizations and Social Welfare by Miguel Glatzer,Paul Christopher Manuel Pdf

This volume seeks to understand the role and function of religious-based organizations in strengthening associational life through the provision of social services, thereby legitimizing a new role for faith in the formerly secular public sphere. Specifically, we explore how a church in a postcommunist setting, during periods of economic growth and recession in the wake of transitions to capitalism, and with varied numbers of adherents, might contribute to welfare services in a new political regime with freedom of religion. Put another way, what new pressures would be placed on the secular welfare state if religious organizations (Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant, Muslim, others) simply stopped offering their services? By examining public perceptions of the church, changing dynamics of religiosity, and church-state-civil society relations, the volume places these issues in context.

Author : Paul Lichterman,Charles Brady Potts
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804757959

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The Civic Life of American Religion by Paul Lichterman,Charles Brady Potts Pdf

Presents lively, research-based essays by premier social scientists on the positive and negative roles of religious groups in American public life.

Author : Jawad, Rana
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781847427809

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Social welfare and religion in the Middle East by Jawad, Rana Pdf

As religion continues to regain its centrality in both academic and policy circles around the world, this book presents a new framework which examines the complex social and political dynamics shaping social welfare in the Middle East. Based on an in-depth study of the major Muslim and Christian religious welfare organisations in Lebanon (including Hezbollah), and drawing upon supplementary research conducted in Iran, Egypt and Turkey, the book argues that religion is providing sophisticated solutions to the major social and economic problems of the Middle East. It will be of use to students and academics of social policy, sociology, politics and Middle Eastern studies.

Author : Nancy T. Ammerman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006-12-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199885480

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Everyday Religion by Nancy T. Ammerman Pdf

Social scientists sometimes seem not to know what to do with religion. In the first century of sociology's history as a discipline, the reigning concern was explaining the emergence of the modern world, and that brought with it an expectation that religion would simply fade from the scene as societies became diverse, complex, and enlightened. As the century approached its end, however, a variety of global phenomena remained dramatically unexplained by these theories. Among the leading contenders for explanatory power to emerge at this time were rational choice theories of religious behavior. Researchers who have spent time in the field observing religious groups and interviewing practitioners, however, have questioned the sufficiency of these market models. Studies abound that describe thriving religious phenomena that fit neither the old secularization paradigm nor the equations predicting vitality only among organizational entrepreneurs with strict orthodoxies. In this collection of previously unpublished essays, scholars who have been immersed in field research in a wide variety of settings draw on those observations from the field to begin to develop more helpful ways to study religion in modern lives. The authors examine how religion functions on the ground in a pluralistic society, how it is experienced by individuals, and how it is expressed in social institutions. Taken as a whole, these essays point to a new approach to the study of religion, one that emphasizes individual experience and social context over strict categorization and data collection.

Author : Helen Rose Ebaugh
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0387257039

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Handbook of Religion and Social Institutions by Helen Rose Ebaugh Pdf

Handbook for Religion and Social Institutions is written for sociologists who study a variety of sub-disciplines and are interested in recent studies and theoretical approaches that relate religious variables to their particular area of interest. The handbook focuses on several major themes: - Social Institutions such as Politics, Economics, Education, Health and Social Welfare - Family and the Life Cycle - Inequality - Social Control - Culture - Religion as a Social Institution and in a Global Perspective This handbook will be of interest to social scientists including sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, and other researchers whose study brings them in contact with the study of religion and its impact on social institutions.

Author : Robert Wineburg,Jay Poole
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783038977605

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Religion, Welfare and Social Service Provision by Robert Wineburg,Jay Poole Pdf

Religion, Welfare, and Social Service Provision: Common Ground delves deeply into the partnerships forged between religious communities, government agencies and nonprofits to deliver social services to the needy. These pages offer a considered examination of how local faith entities have served those in their midst, and how the provision of those services has been impacted by evolving social policies. This foundational volume brings together the work of more than two dozen leading researchers, each providing long overdue scholarly inquiry into religiously affiliated helping and the many possibilities that it holds for effective cooperation.

Author : David E. Guinn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006-08-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190292461

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Handbook of Bioethics and Religion by David E. Guinn Pdf

What role should religion play in a religiously pluralistic liberal society? Public bioethics unavoidably raises this question in a particularly insistent fashion. As the 20 papers in this collection demonstrate, the issues are complex and multifaceted. The authors address specific and highly contested issues as assisted suicide, stem cell research, cloning, reproductive health, and alternative medicine as well as more general questions such as who legitimately speaks for religion in public bioethics, what religion can add to our understanding of justice, and the value of faith-based contributions to healthcare. Christian (Catholic and Protestant), Jewish, Islamic, and Buddhist viewpoints are represented. The first book to focus on the interface of religion and bioethics, this collection fills a significant void in the literature.

Author : Heidi Rolland Unruh,Ronald J. Sider
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005-10-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199882953

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Saving Souls, Serving Society by Heidi Rolland Unruh,Ronald J. Sider Pdf

Recent years have seen unprecedented attention to faith-based institutions as agents of social change, spurred in part by cuts in public funding for social services and accompanied by controversy about the separation of church and state. The debate over faith-based initiatives has highlighted a small but growing segment of churches committed to both saving souls and serving society. What distinguishes faith-based from secular activism? How do religious organizations express their religious identity in the context of social services? How do faith-based service providers interpret the connection between spiritual methodologies and socioeconomic outcomes? How does faith motivate and give meaning to social ministry? Drawing on case studies of fifteen Philadelphia-area Protestant churches with active outreach, Saving Souls, Serving Society seeks to answer these and other pressing questions surrounding the religious dynamics of social ministry. While church-based programs often look similar to secular ones in terms of goods or services rendered, they may show significant differences in terms of motivations, desired outcomes, and interpretations of meaning. Church-based programs also differ from one another in terms of how they relate evangelism to their social outreach agenda. Heidi Rolland Unruh and Ronald J. Sider explore how churches navigate the tension between their spiritual mission and the constraints on evangelism in the context of social services. The authors examine the potential contribution of religious dynamics to social outcomes as well as the relationship between mission orientations and social capital. Unruh and Sider introduce a new vocabulary for describing the religious components and spiritual meanings embedded in social action, and provide a typology of faith-based organizations and programs. Their analysis yields a framework for Protestant mission orientations that makes room for the diverse ways that churches interrelate spiritual witness and social compassion. Based on their observations, the authors offer a constructive approach to church-state partnerships and provide a far more objective understanding of faith-based social services than previously available.

Author : Jacqueline M. Edwards
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781435702523

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Introduction to Faith-Based and Community Initiatives by Jacqueline M. Edwards Pdf

This course of reading will provide you with an overview of the prescription of public and nonprofit partnerships focusing on the White House's Faith-Based and Community Initiatives program. It lays a solid foundation for understanding the benefits of collaboration and power sharing with the Federal government.

Author : Ignatius Swart,Amanda Gouws,Per Pettersson,Frouwien Bosman,Johannes Erasmus
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781920338688

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Welfare, Religion and Gender in Post-apartheid South Africa by Ignatius Swart,Amanda Gouws,Per Pettersson,Frouwien Bosman,Johannes Erasmus Pdf

The topic covered by this book is important (crucially so in post-apartheid South Africa) and the research is meticulous. This has resulted in an impressive collection of material concerning welfare, religion and gender in twenty-first century South Africa, which includes both theoretical reflections and an abundance of empirical data. - Professor Grace Davie (Professor Emerita of Sociology, University of Exeter, UK)

Author : Rana Jawad
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781847423894

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Religion and Faith-based Welfare by Rana Jawad Pdf

This text makes a potentially controversial contribution to social policy debates in Britain, Europe, and North America. Drawing on a critical overview of the role religious values, actors, and institutions have on social programs, Rana Jawad examines the workings of religious welfare organizations from the worlda's major faiths.