TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ronald Eric Matthews,Jr
AU  - Lane,Janet
TI  - Is Charity a Choice?: Protestant Evangelicals, Charitable Choice and the Feeding of the Poor
SN  - 9781443843812 (electronic bk.)
AV  - HV530 .R384 2012 
U1  - 205.677 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Newcastle upon Tyne
PB  - Cambridge Scholars Pub.
KW  - Charity
KW  - Ethics
KW  - Religion
KW  - Community development
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Social service
KW  - Church charities
KW  - United States
KW  - Welfare state
KW  - Church and state
KW  - RELIGION / Christianity / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - RELIGION / Ethics
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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