Religion and Faith-Based Welfare: From Wellbeing to Ways of Being

by Rana Jawad

Book Overview

This original book makes a timely and potentially controversial contribution both to the teaching of social policy and the wider debates surrounding it in Britain today. It offers a critical and theoretically sensitive overview of the role of religious values, actors and institutions in the development of state and non-state social welfare provision in Britain, combining historical discussion of the relationship between religion and social policy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847423892
• ISBN13: 9781847423894
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.2"