1st Edition
Who Will Provide? The Changing Role Of Religion In American Social Welfare
By Mary Jo Bane
Copyright 2001
336 Pages
by
Routledge
336 Pages
by
Routledge
336 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Part One Social Provision in Historical Context 1 Religion, Civil Society, and Social Provision in the U.S. 2 Risks and Responsibilities for Faith-Based Organizations Part Two Public Religion and Social Provision 3 Justice and Charity in Social Welfare 4 Religious Ideas and Social Policy: Subsidiarity and Catholic Style of Ministry 5 Where Religion and Public Values Meet: Who Will Contest? Part Three Partnerships, Strategies and Inescapable Dilemmas 6 Choice or Commonality: Welfare and Schooling after the Welfare State 7 Doing Whose Work? Faith-Based Organizations and Government Partnerships 8 After Partnership: Rethinking Public-Nonprofit Relations 9 Beyond Villages: New Community Building Strategies for Disadvantaged Families 10 That's What I Growed Up Hearing: Race, Redemption and American Democracy 11 Religion and the Boston Miracle: the Effect of Black Ministry on Youth Violence 12 Faith Communities and the Post-Welfare Reform Safety Net--
Biography
Mary Jo Bane (Author) , Brent Coffin (Author)
