The Arc of Faith-Based Initiatives Religion's Changing Role in Welfare Service Provision /

• Main Authors: Bartkowski, John P. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Grettenberger, Susan E. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Religion-Philosophy.; Philosophy of Religion.

This volume offers an in-depth examination of a diverse range of faith-based programs implemented in three different geographical locales: family support in rural Mississippi, transitional housing in Michigan, and addiction recovery in the Pacific Northwest (Washington-Oregon). Various types of reli...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1-Faith-Based Persistence and Permutations
• Chapter 2-Faith-Based Initiatives Reconsidered: The Complicated Relationship Between Religion and Social Welfare Service Provision
• Chapter 3-Faith-based versus Secular Support for Fragile Families: Parent Education in the Rural South
• Chapter 4-Across the Continuum of Care: Transitional Housing Programs in the Midwest
• Chapter 5-Addiction Recovery: Residential Drug and Alcohol Treatment Programs in the Pacific Northwest (Steven Rathgeb Smith with Bejamina Menashe)
• Chapter 6- Does Faith Matter? Client Transformation in Parenting, Housing, and Addiction Recovery Programs
• Conclusion-Promising Partners or Strange Bedfellows? Faith-Based Providers and Government Funders after Welfare
• Appendix A: Methods in Brief
• Appendix B: Research Instruments
• Appendix C: Descriptions of Programs and Agencies.