![]() | Charitable Choices: Religion, Race, and Poverty in the Post-Welfare Era Subjects: Church charities -- Mississippi; Public welfare -- Mississippi; Public welfare -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Church and social problems -- Mississippi; Church work with the poor -- Mississippi; 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. Bartkowski John P. : John P. Bartkowski is Associate Professor of Sociology at Mississippi State University. He is the author of Remaking the Godly Marriage: Gender Negotiation in Evangelical Families.Regis Helen A. : Helen Regis is Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Louisiana State University. Her work on New Orleans jazz funerals and second lines has appeared in American Ethnologist and Cultural Anthropology . |
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