Charity and social welfare /

Charity is a word that fits well in the history of religion and churches, whereas the concept of social reform seems to belong more to the vocabulary of the modern welfare states. Christian charity found itself, during the long nineteenth century, within the maelstrom of social turmoil. In this cont...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Molle, Leen van, 1953- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leuven : Leuven University Press, 2017.
Series:Dynamics of religious reform in church, state and society in Northern Europe, 1780-1920 ; 4.
KADOC studies on religion, culture, and society.
Subjects:
Church and social problems > Europe, Northern > History.
Church charities > Europe, Northern > History.
Église et problèmes sociaux > Europe septentrionale > Histoire.
Église > Œuvres de bienfaisance > Europe septentrionale > Histoire.
HISTORY > Europe > Western.
RELIGION > Christian Life > Social Issues.
Church and social problems.
Church charities.
Northern Europe.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Comparing religious perspectives on social reform : an introduction / Leen Van Molle
  • The United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland. Social welfare and the churches in England, Scotland and Wales / Frances Knight
  • Social welfare in Irish perspective / Dáire Keogh
  • The Low Countries. Social questions and Catholic answers : social reform in Belgium, c. 1780-1920 / Leen Van Molle
  • Church, state, and citizen : charity in the Netherlands from the Dutch Republic to the welfare state / H.D. van Leeuwen and Marco H.D. van Leeuwen
  • Reforming apart together : Dutch health care in the maelstrom of religious and professional rivalry / Annelies van Heijst
  • Germany. Poor and sick relief in Catholic Germany from the Enlightenment until the revolution in 1848 / Bernhard Schneider
  • Social welfare in Catholic Germany, 1850-1920 / Andreas Holzem
  • Diakonie (welfare and social work) and Protestantism in Germany, c. 1780-1920 / Katharina Kunter
  • The Nordic Countries. Social responsibilities in the Protestant north : Denmark and Sweden / Nina Javette Koefoed
  • Christian social work in an age of crisis and reform : the case of Norway / Aud V. Tønnessen.

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