Religion, Race, and Poverty in the Post-Welfare Era
Edición de la obra Charitable choices
| Autor | John Bartkowski, Helen Regis |
|---|---|
| Editorial | NYU Press |
| Fecha de publicación | February 1, 2003 |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 224 |
| Formato | Hardcover |
| ISBN-13 | 9780814799017 |
| ISBN-10 | 0814799019 |
| OCLC | 50164863 |
| LCCN | 2002010095 |
| Número de Cutter |
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B288c |
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 ethnographic study of faith-based poverty relief in 30 congregations in the rural south. Drawing on in-depth interviews and fieldwork in Mississippi faith communities, it examines how religious conviction and racial dynamics shape congregational benevolence. Mississippi has long had the nation's highest.