Title Is Charity a Choice? : Protestant Evangelicals, Charitable Choice and the Feeding of the Poor.

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Summary	Debates on public policy in the United States are shaped, in part, by moral and religious commitments of individuals and communities. Heclo (2003) writes in Religion Returns to the Public Square, "Government policy and religious matters ... both claim to give authoritative answers to important questions about how people should live." Heclo's words apply especially to the issue of poverty and welfare reform, a matter on which the great religious traditions have played an integral part. Apar ...
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
Contents	TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF FIGURES; LIST OF TABLES; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; APPENDIX 1; APPENDIX 2; NOTES; WORKS CITED.
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Subject	Church charities -- United States.
	Church charities.
	United States.
	Welfare state -- United States.
	Welfare state.
	Church and state -- United States.
	Church and state.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	Lane, Janet, 1975-
Other Form:	Print version: Ronald Eric Matthews, Jr. Is Charity a Choice? : Protestant Evangelicals, Charitable Choice and the Feeding of the Poor. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ©2012 9781443841931
ISBN	9781443843812 (electronic book)
	1443843814 (electronic book)
	9781443841931