Charitable Choices : Religion, Race, and Poverty in the Post-Welfare Era / John P. Bartkowski, Helen A. Regis.
2003
HV530
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Title
Charitable Choices : Religion, Race, and Poverty in the Post-Welfare Era / John P. Bartkowski, Helen A. Regis.
Author
Bartkowski, John P., author.
ISBN
9780814723098
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2003]
Copyright
©2003
Language
English
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In English.
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1 online resource
Item Number
10.18574/nyu/9780814723098.001.0001 doi
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HV530
Dewey Decimal Classification
361.7/5/09762
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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Regis, Helen A., author.
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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
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