Religion and Welfare in Europe: Gendered and Minority Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9781447343523 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 320 str.

Lina Molokotos-Liederman

Opis

Compares regional conceptions and variations of welfare in relation to national religious traditions across key parts of Europe. Using comparative case studies, the book examines the transition from research to practical policy recommendations, highlighting the similarities and differences between selected European countries.

Spis treści

Introduction ~ Anders Bäckström Part one: Thinking methodologically: approaches to research and practice; Between contextuality and comparability: a dilemma in qualitative comparative case studies ~ Pål Repstad Using case studies in religion, values and welfare research ~ Olav Helge Angell and Lina Molokotos-Liederman Social cohesion: from research to practice ~ Olav Helge Angell, Marjukka Laiho, Anne Birgitta Pessi and Siniša Zrinščak Part two: Thinking regionally: key case studies in welfare and religion in Europe The WaVE project as a record of religious and social transformations in northern Europe ~ Anders Bäckström The intersections of state, family and Church in Italy and Greece ~ Margarita Markoviti and Lina Molokotos-Liederman Religion, welfare and gender: the post-communist experience ~ Siniša Zrinščak Part three: Gendered and minority perspectives Understanding religious minority communities as civil society actors ~ Annette Leis-Peters Striving to live the good life: the tension between self-fulfilment and family obligations for women in northern England ~ Martha Middlemiss Lé Mon Religion as a resource or as a source of exclusion?: The case of Muslim women’s shelters ~ Pia Karlsson Minganti The moral and gendered crisis of the Italian welfare system seen through the prism of migrant women’s reproductive health ~ Annalisa Frisina Part four: Drawing the threads together Welfare and values in Europe: insights drawn from a comparative cross-country analysis ~ Effie Fokas Afterword ~ Grace Davie