Religion and Social Policy

, by Nesbitt, Paula; Maduro, Otto; Richardson, James T.; Beckford, James A.; Tinker, Tink; Lawson, Ronald; Ebaugh, Helen Rose; Pipes, Paula; Meyer, Katherine; Nason-Clark, Nancy; Fischer, Claire B.; Lummis, Adair T.; Day, Katie; Brasher, Brenda E.; Myatt, Alan

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ISBN: 9780759100886 | 0759100888
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 10/9/2001

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Religion and Social Policy explores how religious concerns influence those who shape and those who are shaped by policies. It queries the social teachings of global denominations and local congregations, as well as the implicit religious stances taken by national governments and international NGOs. For students of religion, sociology, politics or public policy, Religion and Social Policy offers an excellent overview of how the sacred and the secular mix in both the theory and practice of creating a just society.

Acknowledgments

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Introduction

Religion and Social Policy: Fresh Conceptsand Historical Patterns

Paula D. Nesbitt

Part I: Religious Freedom, Identity, and Global Social Policy

Globalization, Social Policy, and Christianity at the Dawn of a New Millennium: Some Reflections from a Latin American Emigrant Perspective

(12)

Otto Maduro

Public Policy toward Minority Religions in the United States: A Model for Europe and Other Countries?

(24)

James T. Richardson

The Tension between an Established Church and Equal Opportunities in Religion: The Case of Prison Chaplaincy

(15)

James A. Beckford

American Indian Religious Identity and Advanced Colonial Malignancy

(19)

Tink Tinker

Tensions, Religious Freedom, and the Courts: The Seventh-day Adventist Experience

(22)

Ronald Lawson

Part II: Religion and Domestic Social Policies

Immigrant Congregations as Social Service Providers: Are They Safety Nets for Welfare Reform?

(16)

Helen Rose Ebaugh

Paula Pipes

Islam, Women's Organizations, and Political Rights for Women

111

(17)

Katherine Meyer

Helen Rizzo

Yousef Ali

Woman Abuse and Faith Communities: Religion, Violence, and the Provision of Social Welfare

128

(18)

Nancy Nason-Clark

Work and Its Discontents: Two Cases of Contemporary Religious Response to Unemployment

146

(18)

Clare B. Fischer

Regional Judicatories and Social Policy Advocacy

164

(17)

Adair T. Lummis

Part III: Further Local and Global Complexities

Putting It Together in the African American Churches: Faith, Economic Development, and Civil Rights

181

(15)

Katie Day

The Civic Challenge of Virtual Eschatology: Heaven's Gate and Millennial Fever in Cyberspace

196

(14)

Brenda E. Brasher

Religion, Race, and Community Organizing: The Movimento Negro in the Roman Catholic Church in Brazil

210

(16)

Alan Myatt

Religious Syncretism and a Postimperial Source of Healing in Korea

226

(18)

Yvonne Young-ja Lee

The Future of Religious Pluralism and Social Policy: Reflections from Lambeth and Beyond

244

(19)

Paula D. Nesbitt

Index

263

(12)

About the Contributors

275

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