View the Table of Contents. Read the Chapter 1.
"Provides important insight into the manner in which federal
support of faith-based poverty relief initiatives affect religious
identity in the Golden Triangle Region of rural
Mississippi."--"Journal of Church and State"
"The book provides a thorough historical overview of the events
that led up to the Bush administration's decision to promote
faith-based social welfare. This thoughtful book is a useful
addition to the growing literature on the subject and should be
widely consulted."--"Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare"
"Well-written and clearly organized."--"Journal of Social
Services"
"In depth profiles...with obvious strengths."--"Contemporary
Sociology"
"The findings raise serious concerns related to discriminatory
practices around who will get served, and the qualification of
those providing the services. . . . Highly recommended."
--"CHOICE"
"The comparative case method stretched across a complex
analytical framework sketches the terrain in broad, suggestive,
analytical strokes. We benefit from the timeliness of Bartkowski
and Regis's study."
--"American Journal of Sociology"
"Nothing short of exceptional..."Charitable Choices" is a very
readable book that makes an evident contribution to contemporary
discourse about welfare reform and its possibilities and
pitfalls."
--"Social Forces"
aThese stories reveal not only the profound commitment that
clergy can have for their flock but how existing social structures
can render the poor invisible. Charitable Choices is more useful as
a description of an under-recognized aspect of American religious
life than as an analysis of government welfarepolicy.a
"Religious Studies Review"
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.
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