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Ronald Eric Matthews, Jr.

Is Charity a Choice? : Protestant Evangelicals, Charitable Choice and the Feeding of the Poor. - Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2012. - 1 online resource (154 pages)

Includes bibliographical references.

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF FIGURES; LIST OF TABLES; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; APPENDIX 1; APPENDIX 2; NOTES; WORKS CITED.

Debates on public policy in the United States are shaped, in part, by moral and religious commitments of individuals and communities. Heclo (2003) writes in Religion Returns to the Public Square, "Government policy and religious matters ... both claim to give authoritative answers to important questions about how people should live." Heclo's words apply especially to the issue of poverty and welfare reform, a matter on which the great religious traditions have played an integral part. Apar ...

ISBN: 9781443843812 1443843814

Source: 9781443843812 Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Nat. Bib. No.: GBB6I2326 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 017933164 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Church charities--United States.
Welfare state--United States.
Church and state--United States.
État providence--États-Unis.
Église et État--États-Unis.
Personal & social issues (Children's--Teenage)
Politics & government.
Political structure & processes.
RELIGION--Christianity--General.
RELIGION--Ethics.
Church and state
Church charities
Welfare state

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States

LC Class. No.: HV530 .R384 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 205.677