ISBN:
9783319906683
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XI, 214 p, online resource)
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Series Statement:
Springer eBook Collection
Series Statement:
Social Sciences
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Bartkowski, John P., 1966 - The arc of faith-based initiatives
Parallel Title:
Printed edition
Keywords:
Religion Philosophy
;
Philosophy
;
Kirchliche Sozialarbeit
;
Sozialwesen
;
Religion
Abstract:
This volume offers an in-depth examination of a diverse range of faith-based programs implemented in three different geographical locales: family support in rural Mississippi, transitional housing in Michigan, and addiction recovery in the Pacific Northwest (Washington-Oregon). Various types of religious service providers-faith-intensive and faith-related-are carefully examined, and secular organizations also serve as an illuminating point of comparison. Among other insights, this book reveals how the “three C’s” of social service provision-programmatic content, organizational culture, and ecological context-all combine to shape the delivery of welfare services in the nonprofit world. This book warns against simplistic generalizations about faith-based organizations. Faith-based providers exhibit considerable diversity and, quite often, remarkable resilience in the face of challenging social circumstances. An appreciation of these nuances is critical as policies concerning faith-based organizations continue to evolve
Abstract:
Chapter 1-Faith-Based Persistence and Permutations -- Chapter 2-Faith-Based Initiatives Reconsidered: The Complicated Relationship Between Religion and Social Welfare Service Provision -- Chapter 3-Faith-based versus Secular Support for Fragile Families: Parent Education in the Rural South -- Chapter 4-Across the Continuum of Care: Transitional Housing Programs in the Midwest -- Chapter 5-Addiction Recovery: Residential Drug and Alcohol Treatment Programs in the Pacific Northwest (Steven Rathgeb Smith with Bejamina Menashe) -- Chapter 6- Does Faith Matter? Client Transformation in Parenting, Housing, and Addiction Recovery Programs -- Conclusion-Promising Partners or Strange Bedfellows? Faith-Based Providers and Government Funders after Welfare -- Appendix A: Methods in Brief -- Appendix B: Research Instruments -- Appendix C: Descriptions of Programs and Agencies
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-319-90668-3
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