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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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
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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