Faith-Based Organizations and Social Welfare: Associational Life and Religion in Contemporary Western Europe

ISBN-13: 9783030084226 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 232 str.

Paul Christopher Manuel; Miguel Glatzer

Spis treści

List of Illustrations

Foreword, Jeffrey Haynes, London Metropolitan University

Preface and Acknowledgments 

1. “Use Words Only if Necessary”: the Strategic Silence of Organized Religion in Contemporary Europe

Paul Christopher Manuel, American University and Miguel Glatzer, LaSalle University

Part One: Countries with a Dominant Religious Society

2. The Entanglement and Disentanglement of Church and State in Irish Social Policy

Michele Dillon, University of New Hampshire 

3. Religiously Oriented Welfare Organizations in the Italy before and after the Great Recession: Towards a More Relevant Role in the Provision of Social Services?

Ugo Ascoli and Marco Arlotti, Università Politecnica delle Marche 

4. Muted Vibrancy and the Invisible Politics of Religion: Catholic Third Sector, Economic Crisis, and Territorial Welfare in Spain

Xabier Itçaina, Centre Emile Durkheim, SciencesPo Bordeaux 

5. The State, Religious Institutions, and Welfare Delivery: The Case of Portugal

Paul Christopher Manuel, American University and Miguel Glatzer, LaSalle University

6. Church-State Relations in Today’s Crisis-Beset Greece: A Delicate Balance within a Frantic Society 

Periklis Polyzoidis, Democritus University of Thrace Komotiní, 

Part Two: Countries with Competing Religious Societies, and with a Formerly Dominant Church

7. Combining Secular Public Space and Growing Diversity? Interactions between Religious Organizations as Welfare Providers and the Public in Sweden

Annette Leis-Peters, VID Specialized University 

8. Social Capital and Religion in the United Kingdom

Steven Kettell, University of Warwick

9. Faith-based Organizations under Double-Pressure: The Impact of Market-Liberalization and Secularization on Caritas and Diakonie in Germany 

Josef Hien, European University Institute 

Bibliography

About the Editors

About the Contributors

Illustrations

Tables

Photos

O autorze

Paul Christopher Manuel is Distinguished Scholar in Residence and Director of the leadership program at the School of Public Affairs, American University, USA. He is the author or co-author of nine books and numerous scholarly articles, including The Path of American Public Policy: Comparative Perspectives (2014).

Miguel Glatzer is Associate Professor of Political Science at La Salle University, USA, where he directs the program on leadership and global understanding. His publications include Globalization and the Future of the Welfare State (2005, edited with Dietrich Rueschemeyer).

Blurb

This volume examines the role and function of religious-based organizations in strengthening associational life in a representative sample of West European countries: newly democratized and long-established democracies, societies with and without a dominant religious tradition, and welfare states with different levels and types of state-provided social services. It asks how faith-based organizations, in a time of economic crisis, and with declining numbers of adherents, might contribute to the deepening of democracy. Throughout, the volume invites social scientists to consider the on-going role of faith-based organizations in Western European civil society, and investigates whether the concept of muted vibrancy aids our theoretical understanding.