From marriage equality, to gun control, to immigration reform and the threat of war, religion
plays a fascinating and crucial part in our nation's political process and in our culture at …

The 1996 passage of welfare reform radically reshaped the principles and practices of
poverty management in the US On the one hand, it brought about an end to welfare as an …

Global humanitarian interventions on behalf of children often commodify forms of childhood
“disadvantage,” defined as non-normative, endangered, and vulnerable. Such processes of …

The academic discourse on welfare religious services, especially on the Islamic ones,
diverges: some scholars have criticised the contribution of religious organisations in …

This collection investigates the intersections between faith-based charity and secular
statecraft. The contributors trace the connections among piety, philanthropy, policy, and …

This project explores the relationship of Pentecostal churches in the US to social ministry.
Taken from the results of multivariate logistic regression and likelihood ratio tests utilizing …

This ethnographic research examines the social service encounter between private
providers and child recipients involved in a faith-based afterschool program located in a …

This exploratory study examines the motivations and goals of relocators, Christian
Community Development Association members who intentionally relocate to low-income …

With the highest number of people in poverty in United States history, according to the US
Census Bureau, there is a growing need for non-medical or social services (housing, food …