03978nam 2200709Ia 450 991080916620332120200520144314.00-8147-2309-81-4175-8814-410.18574/9780814723098(CKB)1000000000031474(EBL)865390(OCoLC)782877919(SSID)ssj0000120130(PQKBManifestationID)11143408(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000120130(PQKBWorkID)10074300(PQKB)11121693(MiAaPQ)EBC865390(OCoLC)58844911(MdBmJHUP)muse10881(DE-B1597)547218(DE-B1597)9780814723098(Au-PeEL)EBL865390(CaPaEBR)ebr10078472(EXLCZ)99100000000003147420020625d2003 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCharitable choices religion, race, and poverty in the post welfare era /John P. Bartkowski and Helen A. Regis1st ed.New York New York Universityc20031 online resource (225 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8147-9902-7 0-8147-9901-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. 192-203) and index.The welfare revolution and charitable choice -- Social welfare and faith based benevolence in historical perspective -- Faith based poverty relief : congregational strategies -- A tale of two churches : United Methodists in black and white -- Debating devolution: Pentecostal and Southern Baptist perspectives -- Invisible minorities : transnational migrants in Mississippi -- Street level benevolence at the march for Jesus -- Charitable choice : promise and peril in the post welfare era.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 poverty rate and was the first state to implement a faith-based welfare reform initiative. The book provides a grounded and even-handed treatment of congregational poverty relief rather than abstract theory on faith-based initiatives. The volume examines how congregations are coping with national developments in social welfare policy and reveals the strategies that religious communities utilize to fight poverty in their local communities. By giving particular attention to the influence of theological convictions and organizational dynamics on religious service provision, it identifies both the prospects and pitfalls likely to result from the expansion of charitable choice.Church charitiesMississippiPublic welfareMississippiPublic welfareReligious aspectsChristianityChurch and social problemsMississippiChurch work with the poorMississippiChurch charitiesPublic welfarePublic welfareReligious aspectsChristianity.Church and social problemsChurch work with the poor361.7/5/09762Bartkowski John P.1966-888469Regis Helen A.1965-1619829MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910809166203321Charitable choices3952269UNINA