The Invisible Caring Hand: American Congregations and the Provision of Welfare

by Ram A. Cnaan

Book Overview

Popular calls to transform our current welfare system and supplant it with effective and inexpensive faith-based providers are gaining political support and engendering heated debate about the separation of church and state. Yet we lack concrete information from which to anticipate how such initiatives might actually work if adopted.
Despite the assumption that congregations can help many needy people in our society, it remains to be seen how...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814716180
• ISBN13: 9780814716182
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 329 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent, ground-breaking book

Cnaan has done a brilliant job, bringing his research to lay people. In writing my dissertation on externally focused churches, I found this book indespensible in my literature review.