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Charitable Choices : Religion, Race, and Poverty in the Post-Welfare Era / John P. Bartkowski, Helen A. Regis.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : New York University Press, [2003]Copyright date: ©2003Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780814799017
  • 9780814723098
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 361.7509762
LOC classification:
  • HV530 .B37 2003
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Welfare Revolution and Charitable Choice -- 2. Social Welfare and Faith–Based Benevolence in Historical Perspective -- 3. Faith–Based Poverty Relief -- 4. A Tale of Two Churches -- 5. Debating Devolution -- 6. Invisible Minorities -- 7. Street–Level Benevolence at the March for Jesus -- 8. Charitable Choice -- Appendix: Milieu and Method -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Authors
Summary: Congregations and faith-based organizations have become key participants in America’s welfare revolution. Recent legislation has expanded the social welfare role of religious communities, thus revealing a pervasive lack of faith in purely economic responses to poverty.Charitable Choices is an ethnographic study of faith-based poverty relief in 30 congregations in the rural south. Drawing on in-depth interviews and fieldwork in Mississippi faith communities, it examines how religious conviction and racial dynamics shape congregational benevolence. Mississippi has long had the nation's highest poverty rate and was the first state to implement a faith-based welfare reform initiative. The book provides a grounded and even-handed treatment of congregational poverty relief rather than abstract theory on faith-based initiatives. The volume examines how congregations are coping with national developments in social welfare policy and reveals the strategies that religious communities utilize to fight poverty in their local communities. By giving particular attention to the influence of theological convictions and organizational dynamics on religious service provision, it identifies both the prospects and pitfalls likely to result from the expansion of charitable choice.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Welfare Revolution and Charitable Choice -- 2. Social Welfare and Faith–Based Benevolence in Historical Perspective -- 3. Faith–Based Poverty Relief -- 4. A Tale of Two Churches -- 5. Debating Devolution -- 6. Invisible Minorities -- 7. Street–Level Benevolence at the March for Jesus -- 8. Charitable Choice -- Appendix: Milieu and Method -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Authors

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Congregations and faith-based organizations have become key participants in America’s welfare revolution. Recent legislation has expanded the social welfare role of religious communities, thus revealing a pervasive lack of faith in purely economic responses to poverty.Charitable Choices is an ethnographic study of faith-based poverty relief in 30 congregations in the rural south. Drawing on in-depth interviews and fieldwork in Mississippi faith communities, it examines how religious conviction and racial dynamics shape congregational benevolence. Mississippi has long had the nation's highest poverty rate and was the first state to implement a faith-based welfare reform initiative. The book provides a grounded and even-handed treatment of congregational poverty relief rather than abstract theory on faith-based initiatives. The volume examines how congregations are coping with national developments in social welfare policy and reveals the strategies that religious communities utilize to fight poverty in their local communities. By giving particular attention to the influence of theological convictions and organizational dynamics on religious service provision, it identifies both the prospects and pitfalls likely to result from the expansion of charitable choice.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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