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Is Charity a Choice? [electronic resource] : Protestant Evangelicals, Charitable Choice and the Feeding of the Poor.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2012.Description: 1 online resource (154 p.)ISBN:
  • 9781443843812 (electronic bk.)
  • 1443843814 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Is Charity a Choice? : Protestant Evangelicals, Charitable Choice and the Feeding of the PoorDDC classification:
  • 205.677
LOC classification:
  • HV530 .R384 2012
Online resources:
Contents:
TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF FIGURES; LIST OF TABLES; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; APPENDIX 1; APPENDIX 2; NOTES; WORKS CITED.
Summary: Debates on public policy in the United States are shaped, in part, by moral and religious commitments of individuals and communities. Heclo (2003) writes in Religion Returns to the Public Square, "Government policy and religious matters ... both claim to give authoritative answers to important questions about how people should live." Heclo's words apply especially to the issue of poverty and welfare reform, a matter on which the great religious traditions have played an integral part. Apar ...
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TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF FIGURES; LIST OF TABLES; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; APPENDIX 1; APPENDIX 2; NOTES; WORKS CITED.

Debates on public policy in the United States are shaped, in part, by moral and religious commitments of individuals and communities. Heclo (2003) writes in Religion Returns to the Public Square, "Government policy and religious matters ... both claim to give authoritative answers to important questions about how people should live." Heclo's words apply especially to the issue of poverty and welfare reform, a matter on which the great religious traditions have played an integral part. Apar ...

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