Who Will Provide? The Changing Role Of Religion In American Social Welfare - Couverture rigide

Bane, Mary Jo; Coffin, Brent

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 081333876X ISBN 13 : 9780813338767

Editeur : Westview Press, 2000

Synopsis

Who will provide for America's children, elderly, and working families? Not since the 1930s has our nation faced such fundamental choices over how to care for all its citizens. Now, amid economic prosperity, Americans are asking what government, business, and nonprofit organizations can and can't do—and what they should and shouldn't be asked to do. As both political parties look to faith-based organizations to meet material and spiritual needs, the center of this historic debate is the changing role of religion. These essays combine a fresh perspective and detailed analysis on these pressing issues. They emerge from a three-year Harvard Seminar sponsored by the Center for the Study of Values in Public Life that brought together scholars in public policy, government, religion, sociology, law, education, and nonprofit leadership. By putting the present moment in broad historical perspective, these essays offer rich insights into the resources of faith-based organizations, while cautioning against viewing their expanded role as an alternative to the government's responsibility. In Who Will Provide? community leaders, organizational managers, public officials, and scholars will find careful analysis drawing on a number of fields to aid their work of devising better partnerships of social provision locally and nationally. It was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Book of 2001.

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À propos de l?auteur

Kenneth Winston is professor of philosophy at Wheaton College. Mary Jo Bane is Assistant Secretary for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Mary Jo Bane is Thornton Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy and Management at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. From 1993-1996, she was Assistant Secretary for Children and Families at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and co-chair of President Clinton's working group on welfare reform. In 1992-93, she was commissioner of the New York Department of Social Services. She is the author of a number of books and articles on poverty, welfare, and families. Brent Coffinco-directs a new program on religious organizations and practices in public life, sponsored jointly by the Harvard Divinity School and Kennedy School of Government. From 1997-2000, he served as Executive Director of the Center for the Study of Values in Public Life at Harvard Divinity School. An ordained Presbyterian minister, Coffin served congregations in the South Bronx, Trenton, and the Twin Cities. Ronald F. Thiemannis professor of theology and religion & society at Harvard University. An ordained Lutheran minister, Thiemann served as Dean of the Faculty at Harvard Divinity School from 1986-1998, and was founding Director of the Center for the Study of Values in Public Life from 1992-1998. He is author of Revelation and Theology: The Gospel as Narrated Promise; Constructing a Public Theology: The Church in a Pluralistic Culture; and Religion in Public Life: A Dilemma for Democracy.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Westview Press
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 081333876X
• ISBN 13: 9780813338767
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 336
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• Personne responsable: non disponible