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Religious Organizations in Community Services
Springer Publishing Company 2003; US$ 75.00This book explores the scope and breadth of religious organizations in social work practice. It begins by tracing the origins of the social work profession back to the earliest civilizations and their religious traditions, establishing the precedent for a fruitful commingling of religion and social welfare. The contributors propose that religious/faith... more...
Spiritual Diversity in Social Work Practice
Oxford University Press, USA 2009; US$ 46.99Many of the people served by social workers draw upon spirituality, by whatever names they call it, to help them thrive, to succeed at challenges, and to infuse their resources and relationships with meaning beyond mere survival value. This revised and expanded edition of a classic provides a comprehensive framework of values, knowledge, skills, and... more...
Child Exploitation and Trafficking
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2011; US$ 69.99This book covers the history and present-day realities of the epidemic of child sexual exploitation and the law enforcement efforts to combat it. Written from the perspective of those who have spent their careers investigating, prosecuting, and adjudicating these cases, the authors provide fresh, practical thinking to this challenging legal area.... more...
The Invisible Caring Hand
NYU Press 2002; US$ 75.00Popular calls to transform our current welfare system and supplant it with effective and inexpensive faith-based providers are gaining political support and engendering heated debate about the separation of church and state. Yet we lack concrete information from which to anticipate how such initiatives might actually work if adopted. Despite the assumption... more...
Serving God Globally
Baker Publishing Group 2012; US$ 21.99This unique text and vocational resource on mission and development work equips readers to serve God and the needs of the world in a global arena. more...
Churches' War on Poverty
Abingdon Press 2002; US$ 9.00When Congress approved the Economic Opportunity Act a new war on poverty was fully launched by the government. This book deals with the churches' involvement in that war. more...
Christianity and Social Service in Modern Britain
Oxford University Press, UK 2006; US$ 44.99An elegantly written study that charts the relationship between Christianity and social service in Britain since the eighteenth century and presents a challenging new interpretation of the links between Christian decline and democratic traditions. - ;Few subjects bring out so well the differences between ourselves and our ancestors as the history of... more...
Faith, Politics, and Power
Oxford University Press, USA 2010; US$ 23.99There is often more than meets the eye where politics, religion and money are concerned. This is certainly the case with the Faith-Based Initiative. Section 104, a small provision of the 1996 Welfare Reform bill called "Charitable Choice," was the beginning of what we now know as the Faith-Based Initiative. In its original form, the Initiative... more...
God's Economy
University of Chicago Press 2009; US$ 30.00President Obama has signaled a sharp break from many Bush Administration policies, but he remains committed to federal support for religious social service providers. Like George W. Bush’s faith-based initiative, though, Obama’s version of the policy has generated loud criticism—from both sides of the aisle—even as the communities... more...
Saving America?
Princeton University Press 2009; US$ 31.95On January 29, 2001, President George W. Bush signed an executive order creating the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. This action marked a key step toward institutionalizing an idea that emerged in the mid-1990s under the Clinton administration--the transfer of some social programs from government control to religious organizations.... more...









