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Faith-Based Organizations and Social Welfare, 1st ed. 2020
Associational Life and Religion in Contemporary Eastern Europe
Palgrave Studies in Religion, Politics, and Policy Series
Coordinators: Glatzer Miguel, Manuel Paul Christopher
Language: EnglishSubjects for Faith-Based Organizations and Social Welfare:
Keywords
faith-based organizations; faith-based welfare; faith-based social engagement; post-communist society; post-communist Eastern Europe; (neo) secularization theory; welfare service; secular democracy; secular society; social advocacy; social services; social welfare; civil society; European associational life; church welfare; contemporary Eastern Europe; religiously unaffiliated; Catholic; Protestant; Evangelical
Publication date: 08-2021
239 p. · 14.8x21 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 08-2020
239 p. · 14.8x21 cm · Hardback
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This volume seeks to understand the role and function of religious-based organizations in strengthening associational life through the provision of social services, thereby legitimizing a new role for faith in the formerly secular public sphere. Specifically, we explore how a church in a postcommunist setting, during periods of economic growth and recession in the wake of transitions to capitalism, and with varied numbers of adherents, might contribute to welfare services in a new political regime with freedom of religion. Put another way, what new pressures would be placed on the secular welfare state if religious organizations (Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant, Muslim, others) simply stopped offering their services? By examining public perceptions of the church, changing dynamics of religiosity, and church-state-civil society relations, the volume places these issues in context.