Charitable Choices: Religion, Race, and Poverty in the Post-Welfare Era

by John Bartkowski, Helen Regis, John P. Bartkowski, et al.

Book Overview

Congregations and faith-based organizations have become key participants in America's welfare revolution. Recent legislation has expanded the social welfare role of religious communities, thus revealing a pervasive lack of faith in purely economic responses to poverty.
Charitable Choices is an ethnographic study of faith-based poverty relief in 30 congregations in the rural south. Drawing on in-depth interviews and fieldwork in Mississippi...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814799027
• ISBN13: 9780814799024
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.6" x 8.5"