Charitable Choices : : Religion, Race, and Poverty in the Post-Welfare Era /

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

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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 ethnog...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Bartkowski, John P.,
Regis, Helen A.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2003]
©2003
Year of Publication:2003
Language:English
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Table of 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

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