Faith-Based Organizations and Social Welfare: Associational Life and Religion in Contemporary Eastern Europe (1st ed. 2020) (Palgrave Studies in Religion, Politics, and Policy)
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- Synopsis
- This volume seeks to understand the role and function of religious-based organizations in strengthening associational life through the provision of social services, thereby legitimizing a new role for faith in the formerly secular public sphere. Specifically, we explore how a church in a postcommunist setting, during periods of economic growth and recession in the wake of transitions to capitalism, and with varied numbers of adherents, might contribute to welfare services in a new political regime with freedom of religion. Put another way, what new pressures would be placed on the secular welfare state if religious organizations (Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant, Muslim, others) simply stopped offering their services? By examining public perceptions of the church, changing dynamics of religiosity, and church-state-civil society relations, the volume places these issues in context.
- Copyright:
- 2020
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- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9783030447076
- Related ISBNs:
- 9783030447069
- Publisher:
- Springer International Publishing
- Date of Addition:
- 10/05/20
- Copyrighted By:
- Springer
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Religion and Spirituality, Politics and Government, Sociology
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- This is a copyrighted book.
- Edited by:
- Miguel Glatzer
- Edited by:
- Paul Christopher Manuel
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