LEADER 04015nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910450205703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8147-2309-8 010 $a1-4175-8814-4 024 7 $a10.18574/9780814723098 035 $a(CKB)1000000000031474 035 $a(EBL)865390 035 $a(OCoLC)782877919 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000120130 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11143408 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000120130 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10074300 035 $a(PQKB)11121693 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC865390 035 $a(OCoLC)58844911 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse10881 035 $a(DE-B1597)547218 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814723098 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL865390 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10078472 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000031474 100 $a20020625d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCharitable choices$b[electronic resource] $ereligion, race, and poverty in the post welfare era /$fJohn P. Bartkowski and Helen A. Regis 210 $aNew York $cNew York University$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (225 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8147-9902-7 311 $a0-8147-9901-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 192-203) and index. 327 $aThe 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. 330 $aCongregations 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. 606 $aChurch charities$zMississippi 606 $aPublic welfare$zMississippi 606 $aPublic welfare$xReligious aspects$xChristianity 606 $aChurch and social problems$zMississippi 606 $aChurch work with the poor$zMississippi 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aChurch charities 615 0$aPublic welfare 615 0$aPublic welfare$xReligious aspects$xChristianity. 615 0$aChurch and social problems 615 0$aChurch work with the poor 676 $a361.7/5/09762 700 $aBartkowski$b John P.$f1966-$0888469 701 $aRegis$b Helen A.$f1965-$01035848 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910450205703321 996 $aCharitable choices$92455763 997 $aUNINA