European churches confronting poverty
Subtitle: social action against social exclusion
By: Herman Noordegraaf, Rainer Volz (eds.) ; with forewords by Jean-Arnold de Clermont and Jürgen Gohde.
Contributors: Noordegraaf, Herman; Volz, Rainer
Publisher: SWI Verlag
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Bochum
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
Subjects: Church work with the poor -- Europe -- Congresses.; Poverty -- Europe -- Congresses.
Notes: Internat. conference proceedings of the Conference of European Churches (CEC).

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: I. Prefaces; title: Foreword / Jean-Arnold de Clermont; title: Foreword / Jürgen Gohde; title: Introduction / Herman Noordegraaf ; Rainer Volz; title: II. European level; title: Poverty policy at the European level in the process of European integration / Benjamin Benz; title: Poverty questions in Europe; title: what are the churches and diaconia doing? / Doris Scheer; title: Poverty in Middle and Eastern Europe, or: Can the eastward enlargement of the European Union be organized on an economic and social basis? / Jürgen Boeckh; title: The churches and poverty in Central and Eastern Europe / Peter Pavlovic; title: III. Country reports; title: Austria / Martin Schenk; title: Belgium / Herwig Hermans; title: Denmark / Hans Raun Iversen; title: Finland / Mikko Malkavaara; title: Germany / Peter Bartmann ; Saskia Jung; title: Great Britain / Niall Cooper; title: The Netherlands / Herman Noordegraaf; title: Sweden / Ninni Smedberg; title: IV. Contrast; title: Workfare, associationism and the "underclass" in the United States: ccontrasting faith-based action on urban poverty in a liberal welfare regime / Justin Beaumont; title: V. Epilogue; title: Concluding remarks / Herman Noordegraaf ; Rainer Volz.