Download or read book The Arc of Faith Based Initiatives written by John P. Bartkowski and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-17 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers an in-depth examination of a diverse range of faith-based programs implemented in three different geographical locales: family support in rural Mississippi, transitional housing in Michigan, and addiction recovery in the Pacific Northwest (Washington-Oregon). Various types of religious service providers—faith-intensive and faith-related—are carefully examined, and secular organizations also serve as an illuminating point of comparison. Among other insights, this book reveals how the “three C’s” of social service provision—programmatic content, organizational culture, and ecological context—all combine to shape the delivery of welfare services in the nonprofit world. This book warns against simplistic generalizations about faith-based organizations. Faith-based providers exhibit considerable diversity and, quite often, remarkable resilience in the face of challenging social circumstances. An appreciation of these nuances is critical as policies concerning faith-based organizations continue to evolve.
Download or read book Faith based Initiatives written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catholics in America written by Lisa A. Keister and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 20 percent of Americans are Catholic, and overall membership in the Catholic Church has remained relatively steady even as increasing numbers of people claim no religious affiliation. Catholics in America provides a contemporary social portrait of this large, increasingly influential group that clarifies who Catholics are and what they really believe. The book offers extensive empirical evidence to uncover the real story of today's Catholics, including their family behaviors, work and economic status, and beliefs. This book will be an important guide for anyone wanting to understand the personal and religious foundations of today's Catholics.
Download or read book Contrasts in Religion Community and Structure at Three Homeless Shelters written by Ines W. Jindra and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-17 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do people in poverty and homelessness change their lives and get back on their feet? Homeless shelters across the world play a huge role in this process. Many of them are religious, but there is a lot of diversity in faith-based non-profits that assist people affected by poverty and homelessness. In this timely book, the authors look at three homeless shelters that take more or less intensive approaches to faith, community, and programming. In one shelter, for instance, residents are required to do a program of classes that includes group Bible study, worship, and self-evaluation. The other two examined are significantly less faith-based, but in different ways and with different structures. The authors show how the three shelters tackle homelessness differently, drawing on narrative biographical interviews and case studies with residents, interviews with staff, and case study research of the three shelters. Entering into significant debates in social theory over religion, agency, cognitive action, and culture, this book is important reading for scholars and students in religious studies, sociology and social work.
Download or read book Religion and Family Life written by Richard J. Petts and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2019-05-03 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been increased interest among scholars in recent decades focused on the intersection of family and religion. Yet, there is still much that is not well-understood in this area. This aim of this special issue is to further explore the influence of religion on family life. In particular, this issue includes a collection of studies from leading scholars on religion and family life that focus on ways in which religion and spirituality may influence various aspects of family life including family processes, family structure, family formation, family dissolution, parenting, and family relationships. The studies included incorporate both qualitative and quantitative analyses, incorporate a number of different religious traditions, focus on religiosity among both adults and youth, and explore a number of important issues such as depression, intimacy, sexual behavior, lying, divorce, and faith transmission.
Download or read book Of Little Faith written by Amy E. Black and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2004-04-21 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George W. Bush had planned to swear his oath of office with his hand on the Masonic Bible used by both his father and George Washington, however, due to the inclement weather, a family Bible was substituted. Almost immediately on taking office, President Bush made passage of "faith-based initiatives"—the government funding of religious charitable groups—a legislative priority. However, "inclement" weather storm-tossed his hopes for faith-based initiatives as well. What happened? Why did these initiatives, which began with such vigor and support from a popular president, fail? And what does this say about the future role of religious faith in American public life? Amy Black, Douglas Koopman, and David Ryden—all prominent political scientists—utilize a framework that takes the issue through all three branches of government and analyzes it through three very specific lenses: a public policy lens, a political party lens, and a lens of religion in the public square. Drawing on dozens of interviews with key figures in Washington, the authors tell a compelling story, revealing the evolution of the Bush faith-based strategy from his campaign for the presidency through congressional votes to the present. They show how political rhetoric, infighting, and poor communication shipwrecked Bush's efforts to fundamentally alter the way government might conduct social services. The authors demonstrate the lessons learned, and propose a more fruitful, effective way to go about such initiatives in the future.
Download or read book American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 35 4 written by Mohammad Syifa Amin Widigdo, John P. Bartkowski, Gabriel A. Acevedo, Gulcimen Karakeci, Favor Campbell and published by International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT). This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 35:4 AJISS issue opens with an editorial that draws attention to the plight of the Uyghur Muslims of East Turkestan facing sustained Chinese government persecution. The issue then features two main articles. The first article, by Dr. Mohammad Syifa Amin Widigdo, argues that the Aristotelian dialectic was adopted within medieval Islamic theology and law and Christian scholasticism toward distinctive purposes: the Greeks aimed to defeat an opponent by showing logical contradictions, Christian scholastics searched for the truth by bringing out the preexisting truth in the mind of the teacher, and Muslim dialecticians employed it to arrive at a level of certainty in knowledge in both epistemological and psychological senses. The second article reports multi-author empirical research by Drs. Bartkowski, Acevedo, Karakeci, and Campbell on the analysis of data extracted from the World Values Survey. It investigates early twenty-first century religious influences on Turkish Muslim women’s attitudes toward gender inequality, hypothesizing that religious devotion among Muslim women in Turkey is associated with greater support for gender inequality across the institutional domains of family. Finally, following the book reviews, the issue includes an extensive and erudite response by Professor Sherman Jackson to some crucial and timely issues raised by Professor Kecia Ali, who has argued that Muslim male scholars often omit, overlook, undervalue, or dismiss the scholarly views and interventions of female scholars. Jackson’s response is thoughtful, engaging, and respectful, even if it refuses to grant the premise of Ali’s argument.
Download or read book Religion and the Global Money Markets written by James Simon Watkins and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-08-18 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on how religion—particularly Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and, to a lesser extent, Hinduism—is shaping the ethos and daily actions of market participants within the global money markets. The concepts inherent within Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and Hinduism are making themselves felt within the global money markets. As Islamic finance led to the introduction of sharia compliant derivatives, for example, Christian investment funds are leading ethical initiatives on Wall Street, the City of London, and elsewhere such as divesting from fossil fuels in response to the climate change emergency. Jewish faith led funds are making significant strides with the further development of impact investments. The concept of Hindu economics is also beginning to shape the actions of some market participants which are tied to the ideals of Mahatma Gandhi.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Study of Religion written by Michael Stausberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 881 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of the Study of Religions provides a comprehensive overview of the academic study of religions. Written by an international team of leading scholars, its fifty-one chapters are divided thematically into seven sections. The first section addresses five major conceptualaspects of research on religion. Part two surveys eleven main frameworks of analysis, interpretation, and explanation of religion. Reflecting recent turns in the humanities and social sciences, part three considers eight forms of the expression of religion. Part four provides a discussion of theways societies and religions, or religious organizations, are shaped by different forms of allocation of resources (i.e., economy). Other chapters in this section consider law, the media, nature, medicine, politics, science, sports, and tourism. Part five reviews important developments,distinctions, and arguments for each of the selected topics.The study of religion addresses religion as a historical phenomenon and part six looks at seven historical processes. Religion is studied in various ways by many disciplines, and this Handbook shows that the study of religion is an academic discipline in its own right. The disciplinary profile ofthis volume is reflected in part seven, which considers the history of the discipline and its relevance. Each chapter in the Handbook references at least two different religions to provide fresh and innovative perspectives on key issues in the field. This authoritative collection will advance thestate of the discipline and is an invaluable reference for students and scholars.
Download or read book Religion and Environmentalism written by Lora Stone and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-07-01 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A foundational resource for readers investigating religiously motivated environmentalism, this book provides both a global overview of the subject and a detailed discussion of key figures, concepts, organizations, events, and documents. Beginning in the late 1960s, a growing number of activists, scholars, and scientists asserted that traditional religions had been major contributors to the environmental crisis. In response, theologians, religious organizations, and religiously motivated activists became increasingly involved in environmental issues. At the same time, emerging nature-based belief systems emphasized values and lifestyles based in environmentalism. More recently, religiously motivated environmentalism has become a powerful force in shaping environmental policy and human action globally and has joined with secular environmentalism to address related issues. This book explores the background and current state of religious environmentalism. The book begins with an overview essay examining the history and context of religious environmentalism and its significance today. A chronology then profiles the most important events related to religious environmentalism. A section of more than 50 alphabetically arranged reference entries follows, with each entry providing objective information about people, places, events, movements, works, and other topics. The entries include cross-references and suggestions for further reading, and the book closes with a selected, annotated bibliography of major works.
Download or read book Public Opinion Towards Faith based Initiatives written by Kimberly A. Mealy and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Faith Traditions and Sustainability written by Nadia Singh and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-11-29 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major religious traditions have begun to reflect on sustainability concerns in their theology and practice. Little research, however, has explored the implications of this development for organizational behavior as well as secular thinkers and practitioners of sustainable development. This book elucidates the varied ways in which faith traditions provide new forms of coping mechanisms to deal with environmental challenges confronting humanity through an integrative review and critical analysis of recent research. Bringing together a compendium of religious and faith traditions, rooted in both Eastern and Western approaches, the work provides a new perspective and presents alternative paradigms to deal with the contemporary ecological crises. The UN Interfaith Statement on Climate Change (2021) highlights the importance of faith traditions to foster “shared moral responsibility for the environment” and set an example for the “life-style of billions of people and political leaders around the world to act more boldly in protecting people and planet.” This interdisciplinary work examines the interaction between management/organizational settings and spirituality focusing on a range of contexts and spiritual traditions including Buddhism, Sikhism, Christianity, Confucianism, mindfulness practices and indigenous spiritual traditions. Featuring theoretical papers and case studies from different contexts and geographical regions, this book provides researchers, faculty, students, and practitioners with a broad overview of the field from a research perspective, while keeping an eye on building a bridge between scholarship and practice.
Download or read book God s Economy written by Lew Daly and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: President Obama has signaled a sharp break from many Bush Administration policies, but he remains committed to federal support for religious social service providers. Like George W. Bush's faith-based initiative, though, Obama's version of the policy has generated loud criticism - from both sides of the aisle - even as the communities that stand...
Download or read book Behavioral Health Response to Disasters written by Julie Framingham and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2012-04-23 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disasters can cause long-term disruptions to the routines of individuals and communities, placing survivors at risk of developing serious mental health and substance abuse problems. Disaster behavioral health services provide emotional support, help normalize stress reactions, assess recovery options, and encourage healthy coping behaviors. They al
Download or read book The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Challenge of Religion written by Johannes Morsink and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2017-08-03 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Repulsed by evil Nazi practices and desiring to create a better world after the devastation of World War II, in 1948 the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Because of the secular imprint of this text, it has faced a series of challenges from the world’s religions, both when it was crafted and in subsequent political and legal struggles. The book mixes philosophical, legal, and archival arguments to make the point that the language of human rights is a valid one to address the world’s disputes. It updates the rationale used by the early UN visionaries and makes it available to twenty-first-century believers and unbelievers alike. The book shows how the debates that informed the adoption of this pivotal normative international text can be used by scholars to make broad and important policy points.
Download or read book Pilgrims and Pilgrimages as Peacemakers in Christianity Judaism and Islam written by Antón M. Pazos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pilgrimages can be analysed as acts of conflict - such as the Crusades - or also as platforms for relationship building and rapprochement between religions. With a set of contributions from leading experts in the field, this book explores the concept of pilgrimage in Christianity, Judaism and Islam. Some specific examples of pilgrimages that helped to strengthen links between different religions or civilisations are explored, ranging from Europe to Asia and from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. Even though every pilgrimage that is investigated here has helped to link different worlds, the case studies show that this relationship rarely led to a better in inter-understanding. Nowadays, peaceful coexistence seems to be its greatest achievement.
Download or read book Paths of Faith written by Vejai Randy Etwaroo and published by Vejai Randy Etwaroo. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Paths of Faith" is an enlightening and immersive journey into the rich tapestry of religious and spiritual traditions that have shaped humanity throughout history. This thought-provoking book delves dееp into thе fundamеntal quеstions of еxistеncе, purposе, and thе naturе of thе divinе, inviting rеadеrs to еmbark on a quеst for dееpеr undеrstanding and pеrsonal growth. With twеnty-four insightful chaptеrs, "Paths of Faith" еxplorеs various topics, from intеrprеting sacrеd tеxts to practising mеditation, dеvotion, and sеlf-rеflеction. It dеlvеs into monothеism and polythеism, transcеndеnt and immanеnt divinity, and pеrsonal and impеrsonal concеptions of thе divinе, rеvеaling how diffеrеnt rеligious traditions undеrstand and rеlatе to thе sacrеd. Thе book also еxaminеs thе pursuit of salvation, libеration, and еnlightеnmеnt, uncovеring thе paths and practicеs that various rеligions offеr as mеans to transcеndеncе and spiritual fulfilmеnt. It dеlvеs into thе еthical principlеs and moral tеachings that undеrpin rеligious bеliеf systеms, еmphasizing thе univеrsal valuеs of compassion, justicе, and rеciprocity. "Paths of Faith" furthеr еxplorеs thе intеrplay bеtwееn sciеncе and rеligion, highlighting thеir distinct but complеmеntary ways of knowing and addrеssing thе mystеriеs of thе univеrsе. It discussеs thе еthical implications of sciеntific advancеmеnts and thе potеntial for rеsponsiblе tеchnological dеvеlopmеnt guidеd by rеligious tеachings. This book goеs bеyond mеrе thеorеtical еxploration by еxamining thе practical application of faith in daily lifе. It discussеs thе intеgration of spirituality into еvеryday activitiеs, rеlationships, and acts of sеrvicе, rеvеaling how rеligious tеachings can guidе individuals towards a morе mindful, gratеful, and compassionatе еxistеncе. "Paths of Faith" еmphasisеs thе importancе of intеrrеligious dialoguе, coopеration, and undеrstanding. Thе book showcasеs succеssful intеrfaith initiativеs and collaborations and еxplorеs thе challеngеs and bеnеfits of еngaging in convеrsations that bridgе rеligious dividеs and promotе harmony and rеspеct. "Paths of Faith" is a comprеhеnsivе and illuminating guidе for rеadеrs of all backgrounds, bеliеfs, and intеrеsts. Whether you are sееking personal enlightenment, pursuing academic knowledge, or simply curious about the divers tapestry of human spirituality, this book offers profound insights and transformative pеrspеctivе that will resonate with you long after you turn the final page. Embark on this captivating journey of exploration, reflection, and discovery, and unlock new dimensions of faith, wisdom, and interconnectedness.
