Charles L. Glenn

The Ambiguous Embrace

Government and Faith-Based Schools and Social Agencies

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Produktbeschreibung

This is a time of far-reaching change and debate in American education and social policy, spurred in part by a rediscovery that civil-society institutions are often better than government at meeting human needs. As Charles Glenn shows in this book, faith-based schools and social agencies have been particularly effective, especially in meeting the needs of the most vulnerable. However, many oppose providing public funds for religious institutions, either on the grounds that it would threaten the constitutional separation of church and state or from concern it might dilute or secularize the distinctive character of the institutions themselves. Glenn tackles these arguments head on. He builds a uniquely comprehensive and persuasive case for faith-based organizations playing a far more active role in American schools and social agencies. And, most importantly, he shows that they could do so both while receiving public funds and while striking a workable balance between accountability and autonomy. Glenn is ideally placed to make this argument. A leading expert on international education policies, he was for many years the director of urban education and civil rights for the Massachusetts Department of Education, and also serves as an Associate Minister of inner-city churches in Boston. Glenn draws on all his varied experience here as he reviews the policies and practices of governments in the United States and Europe as they have worked with faith-based schools and also with such social agencies as the Salvation Army and Teen Challenge. He seeks to answer key theoretical and practical questions: Why should government make greater use of faith-based providers? How could they do so without violating First Amendment limits? What working relationships protect the goals and standards both of government and of the organizations that the government funds? Glenn shows that, with appropriate forms of accountability and a strong commitment to a distinctive vision of service, faith-based organizations can collaborate safely with government, to their mutual benefit and that of those they serve. This is a major contribution to one of the most important topics in political and social debate today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Februar 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9780691092805
• ISBN-10: 069109280X
• Artikelnr.: 21638813

Autorenporträt

Charles L. Glenn With a foreword by Peter L. Berger

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
By Peter L. Berger
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Reaching Out to Civil Society
Challenges to the Welfare State
Bureaucratic Ineffectiveness
Overstepping the State's Appropriate Limits
Government and Education
Administrative Decentralization
Market Strategies
Organizational Flexibility
Controlling Faith-Based Institutions to Death
2. Strings without Money
The Stakes in Government Oversight
Oversight of Faith-Based Schools
Faith-Based Schools That Resist Oversight
The Scope of Government Regulation of Nonpublic Schools
Interlude: Teen Challenge
3. How Close an Embrace?
Three Ways of Understanding Government's Relationship to Religion
Outside the Wall of Separation
Faith-Based Social Services: Where the Wall Is Not So High
Schools: The Unhappy Exception
4. Funding with Government Oversight
How Much Oversight?
Modes of Funding
Contracting
Vouchers
Grants and Other Subsidies
Shared Space
Franchise
Asset Sale
Interlude: Neocorporatism in Europe
The Netherlands
Germany
5. Professional Norms
Professional Norms and Government
Semiprofessionalism
How Professional Norms Developed
Professional Training
Professional Norms and Faith-Based Organizations
6. Employment Decisions
A Tale of Two Cities
The Right to a Shared Vision of Service
Required Qualifications
Interlude: The Salvation Army
By Emily Nielsen Jones, Charles L. Glenn
How Did the Salvation Army Become Different?
The Salvation Army's Self-Understanding
Elements of the Salvation Army's Persistence as a Faith-Based
Organization
Threats to the Salvation Army's Distinctive Mission
Resisting the Lure of Popularity
7. Loss - and Recovery - of Nerve
The Importance of Maintaining Distinctiveness
When Sacred and Secular Mix
Being Explicit about Identity
8. Recommendations
1. Should Government Make a Greater Use of Faith-Based Organizations to
Provide Social Services and Education?
2. May the United States Government Make a Greater Use of Faith-Based
Organizations without Overstepping the Limits Set by the First Amendment?
3. If it Makes a Greater Use of Faith-Based Organizations to Provide Social
Services and Education, How Should Government Behave to Avoid Spoiling
Their Distinctive Character and Contribution?
4. What Measures Should Government Take to Ensure That Making a Greater Use
of Faith-Based Organizations Does Not Lead to Negative Consequences, Such
as a Decline in Quality and Availability of Services or an Increase in
Discrimination?
5. Should Faith-Based Organizations Seek Government Support for Their
Social and Educational Ministries?
6. In Accepting Government Support, How Should Faith-Based Organizations
Protect Themselves from Interference with Their Core Mission and
Distinctive Character?
7. How Can Faith-Based Organizations Reconcile Professional Norms with the
Maintenance and Expression of Their Core Mission and Distinctive Character?
References
Index