Who Will Provide?: The Changing Role of Religion in American Social Welfare

ISBN-13: 9780367216498 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 336 str.

Mary Jo Bane

Opis

Leading scholars examine how the church, community organizations, and the government must work together to provide for America's poor in the aftermath of welfare reform. . Who will provide for Americas children, elderly, and working families? Not since the 1930s has our nation faced such fundamental choices over how to care for all its citizens. Now, amid economic prosperity, Americans are asking what government, business, and non-profit organizations can and can’t do and what they should and shouldn’t be asked to do. As both political parties look to faith-based organizations to meet material and spiritual needs, the center of this historic debate is the changing role of religion. These essays combine a fresh perspective and detailed analysis on these pressing issues. They emerge from a three-year Harvard Seminar sponsored by the Center for the Study of Values in Public Life that brought together scholars in public policy, government, religion, sociology, law, education, and non-profit leadership. By putting the present moment in broad historical perspective, these essays offer rich insights into the resources of faith-based organizations, while cautioning against viewing their expanded role as an alternative to the government’s responsibility. In Who Will Provide? community leaders, organizational managers, public officials, and scholars will find careful analysis drawing on a number of fields to aid their work of devising better partnerships of social provision locally and nationally. It was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Book of 2001..

In Who Will Provide? community leaders, organizational managers, public officials, and scholars will find careful analysis drawing on a number of fields to aid their work of devising better partnerships of social provision locally and nationally.

Spis treści

Part One Social Provision in Historical Context 1 Religion, Civil Society, and Social Provision in the U.S. 2 Risks and Responsibilities for Faith-Based Organizations Part Two Public Religion and Social Provision 3 Justice and Charity in Social Welfare 4 Religious Ideas and Social Policy: Subsidiarity and Catholic Style of Ministry 5 Where Religion and Public Values Meet: Who Will Contest? Part Three Partnerships, Strategies and Inescapable Dilemmas 6 Choice or Commonality: Welfare and Schooling after the Welfare State 7 Doing Whose Work? Faith-Based Organizations and Government Partnerships 8 After Partnership: Rethinking Public-Nonprofit Relations 9 Beyond Villages: New Community Building Strategies for Disadvantaged Families 10 That's What I Growed Up Hearing: Race, Redemption and American Democracy 11 Religion and the Boston Miracle: the Effect of Black Ministry on Youth Violence 12 Faith Communities and the Post-Welfare Reform Safety Net--

O autorze

Mary Jo Bane (Author) , Brent Coffin (Author)