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Charitable choices : religion, race, and poverty in the post welfare era /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University,
©2003.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 214 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-203) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1417588144 9781417588145 9780814799017 0814799019 9780814799024 0814799027 9780814723098 0814723098 |