Faith-Based Organizations and Social Welfare

✍ Scribed by Paul Christopher Manuel, Miguel Glatzer

Publisher: Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2019
Tongue: English
Leaves: 246
Series: Palgrave Studies in Religion, Politics, and Policy
Edition: 1st ed.
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxvi
“Use Words Only If Necessary”: The Strategic Silence of Organized Religion in Contemporary Europe (Paul Christopher Manuel, Miguel Glatzer)....Pages 1-18
Front Matter ....Pages 19-19
The Entanglement and Disentanglement of Church and State in Irish Social Policy (Michele Dillon)....Pages 21-45
Religiously Oriented Welfare Organizations in Italy Before and After the Great Recession: Toward a More Relevant Role in the Provision of Social Services? (Ugo Ascoli, Marco Arlotti)....Pages 47-74
Muted Vibrancy and the Invisible Politics of Religion: Catholic Third Sector, Economic Crisis, and Territorial Welfare in Spain (Xabier Itçaina)....Pages 75-102
The State, Religious Institutions, and Welfare Delivery: The Case of Portugal (Paul Christopher Manuel, Miguel Glatzer)....Pages 103-133
Church–State Relations in Today’s Crisis-Beset Greece: A Delicate Balance Within a Frantic Society (Periklis Polyzoidis)....Pages 135-157
Front Matter ....Pages 159-159
Combining Secular Public Space and Growing Diversity? Interactions Between Religious Organizations as Welfare Providers and the Public in Sweden (Annette Leis-Peters)....Pages 161-184
Social Capital and Religion in the United Kingdom (Steven Kettell)....Pages 185-203
Faith-Based Organizations Under Double-Pressure: The Impact of Market Liberalization and Secularization on Caritas and Diakonie in Germany (Josef Hien)....Pages 205-227
Back Matter ....Pages 229-232

✦ Subjects

Political Science and International Relations; European Politics; Politics and Religion; Democracy; Politics of the Welfare State; Political Sociology; Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice

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