scholarly journals Postscript of Special Issue “Religion, Welfare and Social Service Provision: Common Ground”

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 138
Author(s):  
Jay Poole
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Helping Professions ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
Good Organization

The roots of social work and other helping professions run deep in community-based connections, and joining with local faith-based entities to explore strengths and challenges is essential to good organization and planning [...]

scholarly journals Introduction of the Special Issue “Religion, Welfare and Social Service Provision: Common Ground”

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 143
Author(s):  
Robert Wineburg
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Welfare Policy ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Special Issue

In the early 1980s, when I was a young assistant professor teaching welfare policy, the Reagan administration’s severe cuts to social services left many of the most needy Americans fending for themselves [...]

Jobless and Godless: Religious neoliberalism and the project of evangelizing employability in the US The authors contributed equally to the research for and writing of this article.

Ethnography ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Hennigan ◽  
Gretchen Purser
Keyword(s):  
Welfare Reform ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Job Readiness ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
The Us ◽  
Neoliberal Ideology ◽  
Faith Based Organizations ◽  
Scholarly Attention

In the wake of welfare reform, there has been growing scholarly attention to ‘religious neoliberalism’ and, specifically, to the practices and politics of faith-based organizations in neoliberalized landscapes of social service provision. While much of this scholarship has suggested a seamless ‘fusion’ between conservative evangelicalism and neoliberal ideology, ethnographic research has tended to reveal the far more complicated, and contradictory, reality of evangelical social projects as they play out on the ground. Presenting the first in-depth ethnography of a faith-based job-readiness program, this article examines the contradictory logics operative within the project of what we call ‘evangelizing employability.’ Targeting joblessness, the program urges entrepreneurial independence. Targeting godlessness, the program urges righteous dependence on God. The project of evangelizing employability reveals the extraordinary utility of religion for the enactment of neoliberal priorities and policies of work enforcement and contributes to our understanding of religious neoliberalism and its class-based contradictions.

scholarly journals Taming Prophetic Religion? Faith-Based Activism and Welfare Provision

2009 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-95
Author(s):  
Richard Wood
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Community Organizing ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
The United States ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
The Us ◽  
Faith Based Institutions ◽  
Prophetic Religion

AbstractThis article examines the current debate in the United States (primarily) and Britain regarding government-funded social service provision via faith-based institutions. By highlighting the tension between the 'priestly' and 'prophetic' roles of public religion, it argues for the critical importance of protecting religion's prophetic role even as society moves toward more extensive public financing of priestly social service provision. The article first outlines contemporary prophetic religion in the United States, especially faith-based community organizing (also known as broad-based community organizing) efforts, emphasizing three facets of the field: its scale, its role in building social capital, the issues it has addressed. Secondly, the article argues that, despite the narrow partisan tenor of recent faith-based social service provision in the US, it may have redeeming features that new leaders will want to preserve. However, H. R. Niebuhr's (1951) analysis of the relationship between religion and culture is invoked to characterize four key tensions between priestly and prophetic religion that may be exacerbated by governmental funding. The conclusion outlines several approaches through which practitioners, policymakers, the press, and scholars can help society maximize the benefits and minimize the risks of such funding.

scholarly journals FAITH-BASED SOCIAL WORK SERVICES: THE ANALYSIS OF THE MOSQUE CONTRIBUTION IN SRI LANKA

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 17-27
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Field Observation ◽  
Human Services ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
Difficult Time ◽  
The Social ◽  
Interview Survey

The mosque is a prime Islamic institution to articulate its vision and carry the engagement in the holistic development of the community as a community development Centre. The social service works are much highlighted and encouraged in Islam. The purpose of the study to investigate the mosque engagement in social works in two areas namely the welfare programmes and human services. This paper is mainly relied on the analysis of the data collected from the interview survey administered among the randomly selected mosque island-wide and field observation along with the review of the records and documents. The findings reveal that the mosque engagement in social services is up to the mark in both areas under the investigation. Moreover, the mosque people most likely pay attention to the social activities specially during the difficult time caused by the natural or communal disasters. This paper may provide the concerned people the idea and information to design the mosque programme in social works.

scholarly journals Religion, Gender, and Social Welfare: Considerations Regarding Inclusion

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 44-47
Author(s):  
Susan Crawford Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Government Spending ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
The United States ◽  
Religious Discrimination ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
Discrimination In Employment ◽  
Faith Based Organizations

There is increased interest in faith-based social service provision in recent years, both in the United States and across Europe. While faith-based organizations provide welcome and needed services, there are several potential problems of social inclusion which involve gender, including decreased availability of social services when faith-based organizations are expected to compensate for cuts in government spending, potential for religious discrimination in employment, and potential for religious discrimination against recipients.

scholarly journals Community Social Work in Ukraine: towards the Development of New Practice Models

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 53-66
Author(s):  
Hanna Ivanivna Slozanska ◽  
Nadia Horishna ◽  
Lyudmila Romanovska
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Perspective Taking ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Social Service Delivery ◽  
Practice Models ◽  
Decentralization Reform ◽  
Models Of Service Delivery

The reorganization of social welfare due to the decentralization reform implemented in Ukraine calls for the development and implementation of new practice models of service delivery best suited for community social work. The research is dedicated to discussion of the development of new models of community social work from a Ukrainian perspective, taking into consideration the community social work and community social service delivery concepts given in the literature and community-based practice models implemented abroad. The article reviews the major competencies social workers need to provide services within the local communities. Implications for future research in the field of community social work are addressed in the concluding part of the paper.

The Racial Politics of Place in Faith-Based Social Service Provision

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Bolger
Keyword(s):  
Social Service ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Urban Poor ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Geographic Location ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Service Organizations ◽  
Service Access ◽  
Social Service Organizations ◽  
Faith Based

Abstract Prior research indicates that faith-based social service providers are overrepresented in disadvantaged neighborhoods, which has led some to advocate for their increased involvement in the U.S. social safety net. Yet, we have little understanding of how they and other social service organizations understand the significance of place in their work. Here I explore how conceptions of place matter for social service provision by drawing on 12 months of ethnographic observation and interviews with 24 key informants in two faith-based social service organizations in Houston, Texas. I find that faith-based organizations attach significance to their geographic location based not only on their proximity (or lack thereof) to their target service recipients, but also through relationships with key stakeholders. Agencies label places as safe or unsafe to recruit donors and volunteers, but in doing so they channel resources unequally between communities in ways that perpetuate racial disparities in social service access. The results have implications for understanding the importance of place within social service organizations, particularly faith-based agencies, which are increasingly relied upon to serve the urban poor.

Towards the Integration of Faith, Love, and Praxis

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-27
Author(s):  
Monica Y. E. Chi
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
The Other ◽  
Intergroup Dialogue ◽  
Christian Spirituality ◽  
Social Work Educators ◽  
Dorothy Day ◽  
Jane Addams ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
Poor Understanding ◽  
Martin Luther King

Non-faith-based social work educators and researchers have a poor understanding of what might motivate Christians in social work and whether Christian motivations have any place in social work. On the other hand, Christians have difficulty articulating actions inspired by their faith in ways that others can comprehend despite feeling misunderstood. The focus of this article is to present the framework of faith-inspired praxis of love and lay the groundwork for intergroup dialogue. The framework draws from the works of Jane Addams, Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King, Jr., Jean Vanier, and Mary Jo Leddy, five notable leaders in Christian spirituality and public initiatives, to discuss their conceptualization of faith, love, and praxis. Practice and research implications of this framework for social work are discussed.

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