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Title

European churches confronting poverty : social action against social exclusion / Herman Noordegraaf, Rainer Volz (eds.) ; with forewords by Jean-Arnold de Clermont and Jürgen Gohde.

Publication

Bochum : SWI Verlag, 2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Volz, Rainer
• Noordegraaf, Herman

Description

297 p. : some ill.; 22 cm.

Subject

• Church work with the poor > Europe > Congresses
• Poverty > Europe > Congresses
• Diakonaat (protestantse kerken)
• Armoede
• Europese Unie

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Aufsatzsammlung.

Note

• Internat. conference proceedings of the Conference of European Churches (CEC).

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

I. Prefaces -- Foreword / Jean-Arnold de Clermont -- Foreword / Jürgen Gohde -- Introduction / Herman Noordegraaf ; Rainer Volz -- II. European level -- Poverty policy at the European level in the process of European integration / Benjamin Benz -- Poverty questions in Europe--what are the churches and diaconia doing? / Doris Scheer -- Poverty in Middle and Eastern Europe, or: Can the eastward enlargement of the European Union be organized on an economic and social basis? / Jürgen Boeckh -- The churches and poverty in Central and Eastern Europe / Peter Pavlovic -- III. Country reports -- Austria / Martin Schenk -- Belgium / Herwig Hermans -- Denmark / Hans Raun Iversen -- Finland / Mikko Malkavaara -- Germany / Peter Bartmann ; Saskia Jung -- Great Britain / Niall Cooper -- The Netherlands / Herman Noordegraaf -- Sweden / Ninni Smedberg -- IV. Contrast -- Workfare, associationism and the "underclass" in the United States: ccontrasting faith-based action on urban poverty in a liberal welfare regime / Justin Beaumont -- V. Epilogue -- Concluding remarks / Herman Noordegraaf ; Rainer Volz.

ISBN

• 3925895906 (pbk.)
• 9783925895906 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 57066684
• SCSB-12351398

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library