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  title info:
    title: Saving America?
    sub title: faith-based services and the future of civil society
  name:
    name part: Wuthnow, Robert.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nju
    date issued: 2004
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xviii, 354 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: On January 29, 2001, President George W. Bush signed an executive order creating the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. This action marked a key step toward institutionalizing an idea that emerged in the mid-1990s under the Clinton administration--the transfer of some social programs from government control to religious organizations. However, despite an increasingly vocal, ideologically charged national debate--a debate centered on such questions as: What are these organizations doing? How well are they doing it? Should they be supported with tax dollars?--solid answers have been few. In Saving America? Robert Wuthnow provides a wealth of up-to-date information whose absence, until now, has hindered the pursuit of answers. Assembling and analyzing new evidence from research he and others have conducted, he reveals what social support faith-based agencies are capable of providing. Among the many questions he addresses: Are congregations effective vehicles for providing broad-based social programs, or are they best at supporting their own members? How many local congregations have formal programs to assist needy families? How much money do such programs represent? How many specialized faith-based service agencies are there, and which are most effective? Are religious organizations promoting trust, love, and compassion? The answers that emerge demonstrate that American religion is helping needy families and that it is, more broadly, fostering civil society. Yet religion alone cannot save America from the broad problems it faces in providing social services to those who need them most. Elegantly written, Saving America? represents an authoritative and evenhanded benchmark of information for the current--and the coming--debate.
  table of contents: Why "faith-based"? why now? -- Congregation-based social services -- Congregations as caring communities -- Religion and volunteering -- Faith-based service organizations -- The recipients of social services -- Promoting social trust -- Experiencing unlimited love? -- Public policy and civil society.
  note: Robert Wuthnow.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [333]-347) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Church charities
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Church and social problems
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Faith-based human services
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Church work with the poor
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Civil society
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Federal aid to human services
    geographic: United States
  classification: HV530 .W885 2004
  classification: 361.7/5/0973
  identifier: 0691119260 (cloth : alk. paper)
  identifier: 9780691119267 (cloth : alk. paper)
  identifier: 0691126283 (pbk.)
  identifier: 9780691126289 (pbk.)
  identifier: 2003066360
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    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 030923
    record change date: 20151113132230.0
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