书目名称 | Faith-Based Organizations and Social Welfare |
副标题 | Associational Life a |
编辑 | Paul Christopher Manuel,Miguel Glatzer |
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概述 | Challenges the notion that declining rates of formal participation in religious life have made faith-based organizations irrelevant for Western European civil society.Gathers contributions from top sc |
丛书名称 | Palgrave Studies in Religion, Politics, and Policy |
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描述 | .This volume examines the role and function of religious-based organizations in strengthening associational life in a representative sample of West European countries: newly democratized and long-established democracies, societies with and without a dominant religious tradition, and welfare states with different levels and types of state-provided social services. It asks how faith-based organizations, in a time of economic crisis, and with declining numbers of adherents, might contribute to the deepening of democracy. Throughout, the volume invites social scientists to consider the on-going role of faith-based organizations in Western European civil society, and investigates whether the concept of muted vibrancy aids our theoretical understanding.. |
出版日期 | Book 2019 |
关键词 | welfare; secularization; religious societies; muted vibrancy; social capital; interest associations; poor; |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77297-4 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-08422-6 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-77297-4Series ISSN 2731-6769 Series E-ISSN 2731-6777 |
issn_series | 2731-6769 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019 |