Sacred places, civic purposes : should government help faith-based charity? / E.J. Dionne and Ming Hsu Chen, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dionne, E. J., Jr.

Chen, Ming Hsu.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church charities--United States.

Church charities.

Church charities--Government policy--United States.

Government aid--United States.

Government aid.

Church and state--United States.

Church and state.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (373 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Long before there was a welfare state, there were efforts by religious congregations to alleviate poverty. Those efforts have continued since the establishment of government programs to help the poor, and congregations have often worked with government agencies to provide food, clothing and care, to set up after-school activities, provide teen pregnancy counseling, and develop programs to prevent crime. Until now, much of this church-state cooperation has gone on with limited opposition or notice. But the Bush Administration's new proposal to broaden support for ""faith-based"" social programs

Contents:

Foreword; Acknowledgments; Contents; When the Sacred Meets the Civic: An Introduction; Framing the Debate: Faith- Based Approaches to Preventing Teen Pregnancy; Joseph's Promise: Extending God's Grace to Pregnant Teens; Conservative Triumph: Successes of Worship and Family in Preventing Teen Pregnancy; Defining the Terms of Collaboration: Faith- Based Organizations and Government in Criminal Justice; Not by Faith Alone: Religion, Crime, and Substance Abuse; Community Development and Religious Institutions

Many Are Called, but Few Are Chosen: Faith- Based Organizations and Community DevelopmentPartnerships of Schools and Faith- Based Organizations; Faith- Based Organizations and Public Education Reform; Faith Communities and Public Education: The View from the Superintendent's Office; The Child- Care Landscape; A Survey of Congregation- Based Child Care in the United States; Promises and Perils: Faith- Based Involvement in After- School Programs; Sacred Places? Not Quite. Civic Purposes? Almost.; Compassion in Truth and Action: What Washington Can Not Do to Help

Testing the Assumptions: Who Provides Social Services?Appropriate and Inappropriate Use of Religion; In Good Faith: Government Funding of Faith- Based Social Services; The Breaking Points: When Consensus Becomes Conflict; Holy Waters: Plunging into the Sea of Faith- Based Initiatives; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8157-9845-8

OCLC:

53371697