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Titolo: |
Faith-based initiatives and aging services / / F. Ellen Netting, James W. Ellor, editors
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Pubblicazione: | Binghamton, N.Y. : , : Haworth Pastoral Press, , 2004 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (185 p.) |
Disciplina: | 201/.7626/0973 |
Soggetto topico: | Aging - Religious aspects - Christianity |
Older Christians - Religious life | |
Church work with older people | |
Church charities - United States | |
Human services - United States | |
Church and state - United States | |
Altri autori: |
EllorJames W
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Note generali: | "Faith-based initiatives and aging services has been co-published simultaneously as Journal of religious gerontology, volume 16, numbers 1/2 2004." |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Copyright; Faith-Based Initiatives and Aging Services; CONTENTS; Preface; Separation of Church and State: Impact on Faith-Based Services; Micro Practice and Faith-Based Initiatives: The Role of Religious Congregations in the Social Service System; Faith-Related Agencies and Their Implications for Aging Services; Dialogue with Elizabeth Seale-Scott, Director, Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Baptist Perspectives on Faith-Based Initiatives and Religious Liberty; Wherefore the Faith-Based Initiative: A Commentary and Analysis |
Managing Older Volunteers: Implications for Faith-Based OrganizationsFaith Organizations and Ethnically Diverse Elders: A Community Action Model; The Heritage of Religion and Spirituality in the Field of Gerontology: Don Clingan, Tom Cook, and the National Interfaith Coalition on Aging; Index | |
Sommario/riassunto: | Gain an understanding of the increased role religious congregations now play in providing social support to the elderlyReligious congregations and faith-based organizations (FBO) from the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions have worked on behalf of older adults for centuries. But the initiation of President Bush's Office of Faith-Based Initiatives has raised many questions from both the traditional secular and sectarian services as well as many nontraditional services found in each community. Faith-Based Initiatives and Aging Services addresses the issues of the separation of |
Titolo autorizzato: | Faith-based initiatives and aging services ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-136-43311-2 |
0-203-05113-0 | |
1-283-88504-2 | |
1-136-43304-X | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910779456703321 |
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