Research Catalog

Title

Religion and social policy / edited by Paula D. Nesbitt.

Publication

Walnut Creek, CA : AltaMira Press, ©2001.

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Details

Additional Authors

Nesbitt, Paula D., 1948-

Description

xiii, 278 pages; 24 cm

Subject

• Church and social problems
• Religion and social problems
• Social policy
• Social justice
• Religion and state
• Public Policy
• Social Justice
• public policy
• Kirche
• Soziale Probleme
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Godsdienst
• Kerk en maatschappij
• Sociale politiek
• Sociale problemen
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Kirche
• Soziale Probleme

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Religion and social policy : fresh concepts and historical patterns / Paula D. Nesbitt -- Globalization, social policy, and Christianity at the dawn of a new millennium : some reflections from a Latin American emigrant perspective / Otto Maduro -- Public policy toward minority religions in the United States : a model for Europe and other countries? / James T. Richardson -- The tension between an established church and equal opportunities in religion : the case of prison chaplaincy / James A. Beckford -- American Indian religious identity and advanced colonial malignancy / Tink Tinker -- Tensions, religious freedom, and the courts : the Seventh-day Adventist experience / Ronald Lawson -- Immigrant congregations as social service providers : are they safety nets for welfare reform? / Helen Rose Ebaugh, Paula Pipes -- Islam, women's organizations, and political rights for women / Katherine Meyer, Helen Rizzo, Yousef Ali -- Woman abuse and faith communities : religion, violence, and the provision of social welfare / Nancy Nason-Clark -- Work and its discontents : two cases of contemporary religious response to unemployment / Clare B. Fischer -- Regional judicatories and social policy advocacy / Adair T. Lummis -- Putting it together in the African American churches : faith, economic development, and civil rights / Katie Day -- The civic challenge of virtual eschatology : Heaven's Gate and millennial fever in cyberspace / Brenda E. Brasher -- Religion, race, and community organizing : the movimento negro in the Roman Catholic Church in Brazil / Alan Myatt -- Religious syncretism and a postimperial source of healing in Korea / Yvonne Young-ja Lee -- The future of religious pluralism and social policy : reflections from Lambeth and beyond / Paula D. Nesbitt.

ISBN

• 0759100888
• 9780759100886
• 0759100896
• 9780759100893

LCCN

2001022579

OCLC

• ocm46472129
• 46472129
• SCSB-8966857

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library