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Charitable Choices: Religion, Race, and Poverty in the Post-Welfare Era

Charitable Choices: Religion, Race, and Poverty in the Post-Welfare Era

Bartkowski, John P.
Regis, Helen A.

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General Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0814799019
ISBN13: 9780814799017
Publisher: New York Univ Pr
Published: Feb 1 2003
Pages: 214
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.74 Width: 6.02 Depth: 9.40
Language: English

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.

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