Rebecca Sager

Faith, Politics, and Power (eBook, PDF)

The Politics of Faith-Based Initiatives

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

During the 2000 presidential campaign, George W. Bush made faith-based social services one of the centerpieces of his domestic agenda. These "faith-based initiatives," supporters argued, would reduce poverty, ease the strain on an overburdened welfare system, and prove more effective than government programs. Opponents feared rampant proselytizing with government funds. Instead, these practices created a system in which neither the greatest hopes of its supporters, nor the greatest fears of its opponents, have been realized. The product of five years of in-depth research, Rebecca Sager's Faith, Politics, and Power offers a systematic examination of where and how these programs were implemented, arguing that faith-based initiatives strayed from supporters' original aim of helping the poor, and instead were used as tools to gain political power by the Republican Party and the conservative evangelical movement.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199742028
• Artikelnr.: 38136964

Autorenporträt

Rebecca Sager is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Loyola Marymount University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Contents
* 1.: An Introduction to the Faith-Based Initiatives
* 2.: The Historical Role of Religion in Government Social Services and
the Development of the Faith-Based Initiatives
* 3.: Faith-Based Liaisons: Finding Faith in the Faith-Based
Initiatives
* 4.: Making the Initiatives the Law of the Land
* 5.: Calling All the Faithful: Faith-Based Conferences and Liaison
Choices as Symbolic Politics
* 6.: Here, There, but Not Quite Everywhere: Why are there Faith-Based
Initiatives?
* 7.: Religion, Policy, and Politics: Institutionalizing Religion
within State Government
* 8.: Conclusion: What is Success?