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Economics of Faith - Reforming Poverty in Early Modern Europe (Hardcover)
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Economics of Faith - Reforming Poverty in Early Modern Europe (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Historical Theology
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Economics of Faith examines the role of religious leaders in the
development of poor relief institutions in early modern Europe. As
preachers, policy makers, advocates, and community leaders, these
reformers offered a new interpretation of salvation and good works
that provided the religious foundation for poor relief reform.
Although poverty was once associated with the religious image of
piety, reformers no longer saw it as a spiritual virtue. Rather
they considered social welfare reform to be an integral part of
religious reform and worked to modify existing poor relief
institutions or to set up new ones. Population growth, economic
crises, and migration in early modern Europe caused poverty and
begging to be an ever-increasing concern, and religious leaders
encouraged the development and expansion of poor relief
institutions. This new cadre of reformers served as catalysts,
organizers, stabilizers, and consolidators of strategies to
alleviate poverty, the most glaring social problem of early modern
society. Although different roles emerged from varying
relationships and negotiations with local political authorities and
city councils, reform-minded ministers and lay leaders shaped a
variety of institutions to address the problem of poverty and to
promote social and communal responsibility. As religious options
multiplied within Christianity, one's understanding of community
determined the boundaries, albeit contested and sometimes fluid, of
responsible poor relief. This goal of communal care would be
especially relevant for religious refugees who as foreigners and
strangers became responsible for caring for their own group.
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