Title: Charitable choices
Description: Congregations and faith-based organizations have become key participants in America's welfare revolution. Recent legislation has expanded the social welfare role of religious communities, thus revealing a pervasive lack of faith in purely economic responses to poverty. Charitable Choices is an ethnographic study of faith-based poverty relief in 30 congregations in the rural south. Drawing on in-depth interviews and fieldwork in Mississippi faith communities, it examines how religious conviction and racial dynamics shape congregational benevolence. Mississippi has long had the nation's highest.
Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE, Philanthropy & Charity, Church and social problems, Church charities, Public welfare, Church work with the poor, Christianity, Mississippi, economic conditions, Mississippi, social conditions
Places: Mississippi