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Many scholars and citizens alike have counted on civic groups to create broad ties that bind society. Some hope that faith-based civic groups will spread their reach as government retreats. Yet few studies ask how, if at all, civic groups reach out to their wider community. Can religious groups--long central in civic America--create broad, empowering social ties in an unequal, diverse society? Over three years, Paul Lichterman studied nine liberal and conservative Protestant-based volunteering and advocacy projects in a mid-sized American city. He listened as these groups tried to create bridges with other community groups, social service agencies, and low-income people, just as the 1996 welfare reforms were taking effect. Counter to long-standing arguments, Lichterman discovered that powerful customs of interaction inside the groups often stunted external ties and even shaped religion's impact on the groups. Comparing groups, he found that successful bridges outward depend on group customs which invite reflective, critical discussion about a group's place amid surrounding groups and institutions. Combining insights from Alexis de Tocqueville, John Dewey, and Jane Addams with contemporary sociology, Elusive Togetherness addresses enduring questions about civic and religious life that elude the popular "social capital" concept. To create broad civic relationships, groups need more than the right religious values, political beliefs, or resources. They must learn new ways of being groups.

Small groups --- Associations, institutions, etc. --- Voluntarism --- Social action --- Religion and social problems --- Social problems and religion --- Social problems --- Religious aspects. --- Religious aspects

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Explore the relationship between faith-based programs, religion, and offender rehabilitation! This book reports on current research from several disciplines to help the reader understand the nature and impact of the relationship between faith-based programs, religion, and offender rehabilitation. Religion, the Community, and the Rehabilitation of Criminal Offenders is a unique resource?there has been very little research published on this important topic. President Bush's faith-based initiative recognized that religion plays a role in the justice system and corrections that i

Criminals --- Religion and social problems. --- Religious work with prisoners. --- Prisoners --- Social action --- Social problems and religion --- Social problems --- Reform of criminals --- Rehabilitation of criminals --- Corrections --- Alternatives to imprisonment --- Rehabilitation. --- Religious aspects --- Rehabilitation

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This book presents G. A. Cohen's Gifford Lectures, delivered at the University of Edinburgh in 1996. Focusing on Marxism and Rawlsian liberalism, Cohen draws a connection between these thought systems and the choices that shape a person's life. In the case of Marxism, the relevant life is his own: a communist upbringing in the 1940s in Montreal, which induced a belief in a strongly socialist egalitarian doctrine. The narrative of Cohen's reckoning with that inheritance develops through a series of sophisticated engagements with the central questions of social and political philosophy. In the case of Rawlsian doctrine, Cohen looks to people's lives in general. He argues that egalitarian justice is not only, as Rawlsian liberalism teaches, a matter of rules that define the structure of society, but also a matter of personal attitude and choice. Personal attitude and choice are, moreover, the stuff of which social structure itself is made. Those truths have not informed political philosophy as much as they should, and Cohen's focus on them brings political philosophy closer to moral philosophy, and to the Judeo-Christian ethical tradition, than it has recently been.

Equality. --- Distributive justice. --- Social justice. --- Communism. --- Liberalism. --- Religion and social problems. --- Social action --- Social problems and religion --- Social problems --- Liberal egalitarianism --- Liberty --- Political science --- Social sciences --- Bolshevism --- Communist movements --- Leninism --- Maoism --- Marxism --- Trotskyism --- Collectivism --- Totalitarianism --- Post-communism --- Socialism --- Village communities --- Equality --- Justice --- Distribution (Economic theory) --- Social justice --- Wealth --- Egalitarianism --- Inequality --- Social equality --- Social inequality --- Sociology --- Democracy --- Religious aspects --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Communism --- Distributive justice --- Liberalism --- Religion and social problems --- Egalité (Sociologie) --- Communisme --- Socialisme --- Libéralisme --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy

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This book explores the roles of religion in the current refugee crisis of Europe. Combining sociological, philosophical, and theological accounts of this crisis, renowned scholars from across Europe examine how religion has been employed to call either for eliminating or for enforcing the walls around “Fortress Europe.” Religion, they argue, is radically ambiguous, simultaneously causing social conflict and social cohesion in times of turmoil. Charting the constellations, the conflicts, and the consequences of the current refugee crisis, this book thus answers the need for succinct but sustained accounts of the intersections of religion and migration.

Refugees --- Religion and social problems --- Government policy --- Social action --- Social problems and religion --- Social problems --- Displaced persons --- Persons --- Aliens --- Deportees --- Exiles --- Religious aspects --- Religion and sociology. --- Migration. --- Cultural policy. --- Europe-Politics and government. --- Religion and Society. --- Cultural Policy and Politics. --- European Politics. --- Intellectual life --- State encouragement of science, literature, and art --- Culture --- Popular culture --- Religion and society --- Religious sociology --- Society and religion --- Sociology, Religious --- Sociology and religion --- Sociology of religion --- Sociology --- Emigration and immigration. --- Europe—Politics and government. --- Immigration --- International migration --- Migration, International --- Population geography --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Colonization

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Après avoir dressé le bilan de la perte des valeurs éthiques dont souffre la société congolaise majoritairement chrétienne, l'auteur donne des pistes pour articuler le message chrétien avec la culture bantoue et pour ainsi promouvoir une nouvelle évangélisation.

Catholic Church --- Social values --- Eglise catholique --- Valeurs sociales --- Congo (République démocratique) --- Evangelistic work --- Christianity and other religions --- Religion and social problems --- Bantu-speaking peoples --- Social conditions --- 266.1*4 --- 266 <675> --- Missie en niet-christelijke godsdiensten --- Missies. Evangelisatie. Zending--Zaïre. Belgisch Kongo --- 266.1*4 Missie en niet-christelijke godsdiensten --- Congo (République démocratique) --- Social action --- Social problems and religion --- Social problems --- Evangelism --- Proselytizing --- Revival (Religion) --- Theology, Practical --- Discipling (Christianity) --- Religious awakening --- Christianity --- Syncretism (Christianity) --- Religions --- Bantus --- Ethnology --- Religious aspects --- Relations --- History --- Church of Rome --- Roman Catholic Church --- Katholische Kirche --- Katolyt︠s︡ʹka t︠s︡erkva --- Römisch-Katholische Kirche --- Römische Kirche --- Ecclesia Catholica --- Eglise catholique-romaine --- Katolicheskai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ --- Chiesa cattolica --- Iglesia Católica --- Kościół Katolicki --- Katolicki Kościół --- Kościół Rzymskokatolicki --- Nihon Katorikku Kyōkai --- Katholikē Ekklēsia --- Gereja Katolik --- Kenesiyah ha-Ḳatolit --- Kanisa Katoliki --- כנסיה הקתולית --- כנסייה הקתולית --- 가톨릭교 --- 천주교 --- Evangelistic work - Congo (Brazzaville) --- Christianity and other religions - Congo (Brazzaville) --- Religion and social problems - Congo (Brazzaville) --- Bantu-speaking peoples - Congo (Brazzaville) - Social conditions