Is Charity a Choice? : Protestant Evangelicals, Charitable Choice and the Feeding of the Poor.

By:

Ronald Eric Matthews, Jr

Contributor(s):

Lane, Janet

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2012.Description: 1 online resource (154 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781443843812
1443843814

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Is Charity a Choice? : Protestant Evangelicals, Charitable Choice and the Feeding of the Poor.DDC classification:

205.677

LOC classification:

HV530 .R384 2012

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Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF FIGURES; LIST OF TABLES; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; APPENDIX 1; APPENDIX 2; NOTES; WORKS CITED.

Summary: Debates on public policy in the United States are shaped, in part, by moral and religious commitments of individuals and communities. Heclo (2003) writes in Religion Returns to the Public Square, "Government policy and religious matters ... both claim to give authoritative answers to important questions about how people should live." Heclo's words apply especially to the issue of poverty and welfare reform, a matter on which the great religious traditions have played an integral part. Apar ...

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Debates on public policy in the United States are shaped, in part, by moral and religious commitments of individuals and communities. Heclo (2003) writes in Religion Returns to the Public Square, "Government policy and religious matters ... both claim to give authoritative answers to important questions about how people should live." Heclo's words apply especially to the issue of poverty and welfare reform, a matter on which the great religious traditions have played an integral part. Apar ...