Visions of charity [electronic resource] : volunteer workers and moral community
Allahyari, Rebecca Anne.
Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press,
c2000.
In the United States, public talk about charity for the poor is highly moralistic, even in our era of welfare reform. But how do we understand the actual experience of caring for the poor? This study looks at the front lines of volunteer involvement with the poor and homeless to assess what volunteer work means for those who do it.
Description based upon print version of record.
Preliminaries; CONTENTS; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Performing Personalist Hospitality; 2. Administering Salvationism; 3. Moral Selving within Personalist Hospitality; 4. Moral Selving within Salvationism; 5. The Politics of Charity; Epilogue; Notes; References; Index
In the United States, public talk about charity for the poor is highly moralistic, even in our era of welfare reform. But how do we understand the actual experience of caring for the poor? This study looks at the front lines of volunteer involvement with the poor and homeless to assess what volunteer work means for those who do it.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Salvation Army
Loaves & Fishes (Organization : Sacramento, Calif.)
Church work with the homeless.
Church work with the homeless-- California-- Sacra.
Helping behavior.
Helping behavior - Religious aspects - Christianit.
Social movements.
Voluntarism.
Voluntarism - Religious aspects - Christianity - C.