Indiana Congregation' Human Services Programs
Title | Indiana Congregation' Human Services Programs PDF eBook |
Author | |
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Pages | |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Charity laws and legislation |
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Faith-based Perspectives on the Provision of Community Services
Title | Faith-based Perspectives on the Provision of Community Services PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and Human Resources |
Publisher | |
Pages | 180 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Political Science |
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A Public Charity
Title | A Public Charity PDF eBook |
Author | Mary L. Mapes |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 2004-10-19 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780253110978 |
Using Indianapolis as its focus, this book explores the relationship between religion and social welfare. Arising out of the Indianapolis Polis Center's Lilly-sponsored study of religion and urban culture, the book looks at three issues: the role of religious social services within Indianapolis's larger social welfare support system, both public and private; the evolution of the relationship between public and private welfare sectors; and how ideas about citizenship mediated the delivery of social services. Noting that religious nonprofits do not figure prominently in most studies of welfare, Mapes explores the historical roots of the relationship between religiously affiliated social welfare and public agencies. Her approach recognizes that local variation has been a defining feature of American social welfare. A Public Charity aims to illuminate local trends and to relate the situation in Indianapolis to national trends and events. Polis Center Series on Religion and Urban Culture -- David J. Bodenhamer and Arthur E. Farnsley II, editors
Faith-based Perspectives on the Provision of Community Services
Title | Faith-based Perspectives on the Provision of Community Services PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and Human Resources |
Publisher | |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Political Science |
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Faith-based Social Service Provision Under Charitable Choice
Title | Faith-based Social Service Provision Under Charitable Choice PDF eBook |
Author | |
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Pages | 130 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Social service |
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Saving Souls, Serving Society
Title | Saving Souls, Serving Society PDF eBook |
Author | Heidi Rolland Unruh |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 334 |
Release | 2005-10-06 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0198036574 |
Recent years have seen unprecedented attention to faith-based institutions as agents of social change, spurred in part by cuts in public funding for social services and accompanied by controversy about the separation of church and state. The debate over faith-based initiatives has highlighted a small but growing segment of churches committed to both saving souls and serving society. What distinguishes faith-based from secular activism? How do religious organizations express their religious identity in the context of social services? How do faith-based service providers interpret the connection between spiritual methodologies and socioeconomic outcomes? How does faith motivate and give meaning to social ministry? Drawing on case studies of fifteen Philadelphia-area Protestant churches with active outreach, Saving Souls, Serving Society seeks to answer these and other pressing questions surrounding the religious dynamics of social ministry. While church-based programs often look similar to secular ones in terms of goods or services rendered, they may show significant differences in terms of motivations, desired outcomes, and interpretations of meaning. Church-based programs also differ from one another in terms of how they relate evangelism to their social outreach agenda. Heidi Rolland Unruh and Ronald J. Sider explore how churches navigate the tension between their spiritual mission and the constraints on evangelism in the context of social services. The authors examine the potential contribution of religious dynamics to social outcomes as well as the relationship between mission orientations and social capital. Unruh and Sider introduce a new vocabulary for describing the religious components and spiritual meanings embedded in social action, and provide a typology of faith-based organizations and programs. Their analysis yields a framework for Protestant mission orientations that makes room for the diverse ways that churches interrelate spiritual witness and social compassion. Based on their observations, the authors offer a constructive approach to church-state partnerships and provide a far more objective understanding of faith-based social services than previously available.
State of Indiana Final Comprehensive Annual Services Plan
Title | State of Indiana Final Comprehensive Annual Services Plan PDF eBook |
Author | Indiana Office of Social Services |
Publisher | |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Social service |
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