The welfare revolution and charitable choice -- Social welfare and faith based benevolence in historical perspective -- Faith based poverty relief : congregational strategies -- A tale of two churches : United Methodists in black and white -- Debating devolution: Pentecostal and Southern Baptist perspectives -- Invisible minorities : transnational migrants in Mississippi -- Street level benevolence at the march for Jesus -- Charitable choice : promise and peril in the post welfare era
Summary
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
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-203) and index
