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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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Bartkowski, John P., 1966-
Autres auteurs: Regis, Helen A., 1965-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : New York University, ©2003.
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Table des matières:
  • The welfare revolution and charitable choice
  • Social welfare and faith based benevolence in historical perspective
  • Faith based poverty relief : congregational strategies
  • A tale of two churches : United Methodists in black and white
  • Debating devolution: Pentecostal and Southern Baptist perspectives
  • Invisible minorities : transnational migrants in Mississippi
  • Street level benevolence at the march for Jesus
  • Charitable choice : promise and peril in the post welfare era.