Faith-based organizations and social welfare : associational life and religion in contemporary Eastern Europe
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Faith-based organizations and social welfare : associational life and religion in contemporary Eastern Europe
（Palgrave studies in religion, politics, and policy / series editors, Ted G. Jelen and Mark J. Rozell）
Palgrave Macmillan, c2020
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This volume seeks to understand the role and function of religious-based organizations in strengthening associational life through the provision of social services, thereby legitimizing a new role for faith in the formerly secular public sphere. Specifically, we explore how a church in a postcommunist setting, during periods of economic growth and recession in the wake of transitions to capitalism, and with varied numbers of adherents, might contribute to welfare services in a new political regime with freedom of religion. Put another way, what new pressures would be placed on the secular welfare state if religious organizations (Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant, Muslim, others) simply stopped offering their services? By examining public perceptions of the church, changing dynamics of religiosity, and church-state-civil society relations, the volume places these issues in context.
Table of Contents
1. Religion, Faith-Based Organizations and Welfare Delivery in Contemporary Eastern Europe: An Introduction to the Volume
2. Religion, Civil Society, and the State: Dynamics in Eastern Europe
Part One: Majority Orthodox Countries
3. Faith-Based Welfare Provision in Russia
4. The Place of Church in the Romanian Public Sphere: From Charitable Entrepreneur to Political Agent
5. In Times of Crisis: Faith-based Social Engagement and Religious Contestations in Ukraine since Maidan 2013-2014
Part Two: Majority Roman Catholic Countries
6. God's Backyard: Politics and the Catholic Church in Poland
7. Church and the Welfare State in Croatia
8. Religion, Civil Society, and Charitable Activity in Slovenia
9. Faith-Based Organizations in Hungary
Part Three: Countries with Large Numbers of Religiously Unaffiliated
10. Religion and Welfare in a Secular Society: The Case of Estonia
11. Irreplaceable Church Welfare in the Least Religious Country: The Case of the Czech Republic
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