Christianity And Social Service In Modern Britain

Author : Frank Prochaska
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199287929
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christianity and Social Service in Modern Britain written by Frank Prochaska and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2006-01-26 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An 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.

Author : F. K. Prochaska
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christianity and Social Service in Modern Britain written by F. K. Prochaska and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frank Prochaska
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191537063
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christianity and Social Service in Modern Britain written by Frank Prochaska and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-01-26 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few subjects bring out so well the differences between ourselves and our ancestors as the history of Christian charity. In an increasingly mobile and materialist world, in which culture has grown more national, indeed global, we no longer relate to the lost world of nineteenth-century parish life. Today, we can hardly imagine a voluntary society that boasted millions of religious associations providing essential services, in which the public rarely saw a government official apart from the post office clerk. Against the background of the welfare state and the collapse of church membership, the very idea of Christian social reform has a quaint, Victorian air about it. In this elegantly written study of shifting British values, Frank Prochaska examines the importance of Christianity as an inspiration for political and social behaviour in the nineteenth century and the forces that undermined both religion and philanthropy in the twentieth. The waning of religion and the growth of government responsibility for social provision were closely intertwined. Prochaska shows how the creation of the modern British state undermined religious belief and customs of associational citizenship. In unravelling some of the complexities in the evolving relationship between voluntarism and the state, the book presents a challenging new interpretation of Christian decline and democratic traditions in Britain.

Author : Linda Woodhead
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136475001
Total Pages : 595 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion and Change in Modern Britain written by Linda Woodhead and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a fully up-to-date and comprehensive guide to religion in Britain since 1945. A team of leading scholars provide a fresh analysis and overview, with a particular focus on diversity and change. They examine: relations between religious and secular beliefs and institutions the evolving role and status of the churches the growth and ‘settlement’ of non-Christian religious communities the spread and diversification of alternative spiritualities religion in welfare, education, media, politics and law theoretical perspectives on religious change. The volume presents the latest research, including results from the largest-ever research initiative on religion in Britain, the AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Programme. Survey chapters are combined with detailed case studies to give both breadth and depth of coverage. The text is accompanied by relevant photographs and a companion website.

Author : David Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198714890
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Modern British Political History, 1800-2000 written by David Brown and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new title in the Oxford Handbooks in History series, offering an authoritative view of British political history from 1800 to 2000, engaging with the sweeping changes in the ways in which Britain was governed, the duties of the state, and its role in the wider world, and suggesting avenues of future research.

Author : Leen Van Molle
Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 9462700923
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charity and Social Welfare written by Leen Van Molle and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How churches in Northern Europe reinvented their role as providers of social relief Charity is a word that fits well in the history of religion and churches, whereas the concept of social reform seems to belong more to the vocabulary of the modern welfare states. Christian charity found itself, during the long nineteenth century, within the maelstrom of social turmoil. In this context of social unrest, although charity managed to confirm its relevance, it was also subjected to fierce criticism, as well as to substitute state-run forms of social care and insurance. The history of the welfare states remained all too blind to religion. This fourth volume in the series ‘Dynamics of Religious Reform’ unravels how the churches in Britain and Ireland, Denmark, Sweden and Norway, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium shaped and adjusted their understanding of poverty. It reveals how they struggled with the ‘social question’ and often also with the modern nation states to which they belonged. Either in the periphery of public assistance or in a dynamic interplay with the state, political parties and society at large, the churches reinvented their tradition as providers of social relief. Contributors Andreas Holzem (Universität Tübingen), Dáire Keogh (St Patrick’s College, Dublin City University), Frances Knight (The University of Nottingham), Nina Koefoed (Aarhus Universitet), Katharina Kunter (Germany), Bernhard Schneider (Universität Trier), Aud V. Tønnessen (Universitetet Oslo), Annelies van Heijst (Tilburg University), H.D. van Leeuwen and M.H.D. van Leeuwen (Universiteit Utrecht), Leen Van Molle (KU Leuven).

Author : Mark Henrickson
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447357345
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origins of Social Care and Social Work written by Mark Henrickson and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2022-07-26 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acknowledging the religious influences in social work’s roots, Mark Henrickson proposes that it need not be constrained by it. Addressing current debates in international social work about the relevance of different perspectives, this book will allow practitioners and scholars to create a global future of social work.

Author : Furness, Sheila
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1861349815
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion, Belief and Social Work written by Furness, Sheila and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2009-11-18 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how religion and related beliefs have varied impacts on the needs and perceptions of practitioners, service users, and the support networks available to them. The authors argue that social workers need to understand these phenomena, so that they can become more confident in challenging discriminatory and oppressive practices. The centrality of religion and associated beliefs in the lives of many is emphasised, as are their potentially liberating (and potentially negative) impacts. In line with the Social Work in Practice series style, the book allows readers to explore issues in depth. It focuses on knowledge transmission, and the encouragement of critical reflection on practice. Each chapter is built around 'real-life' case scenarios using a problem-based learning approach. This book is the first to deal with social work and religion so comprehensively and will therefore be essential reading not only for social work students, but also for practitioners in a range of areas, social work academics and researchers in the UK and beyond.

Author : N. Crowson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230234070
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book NGOs in Contemporary Britain written by N. Crowson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-04-22 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the history of social movements and non-state socio-political action, this volume shows how Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) have proliferated in Britain since 1945, and how they have raised new political agendas, revived associational life, and arguably re-politicized generations disillusioned with the politics of the ballot box.

Author : David G. Reagles
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228010071
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Searching for God in Britain and Beyond written by David G. Reagles and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When writer and media personality Malcolm Muggeridge unexpectedly converted to Christianity in the 1960s, fans around the world flocked to his devotional writings and television programs about his spiritual journey. Because Muggeridge was critical of institutional Christianity and initially refused to join a church, he inspired a special affinity in those who were disillusioned with mainstream religious authority. Readers from around the world sent him deeply personal letters describing their spiritual and religious lives, revealing their anxieties, doubts, and hopes about the future of Christianity. In Searching for God in Britain and Beyond David Reagles draws on nearly two thousand of these remarkable fan letters to explore the thoughts and feelings of ordinary Christians in a time of cultural and religious upheaval. In these candid letters, Muggeridge’s correspondents wrestled with their experiences of faith and doubt, the value of institutional religion, uncertainties about permissiveness in society, the proper role of Christian social activism, and the forces of secularism. For these fans and skeptics alike, reading and writing were a vital means of working out their religious identities and convictions amid the supposed decline of Christendom. Searching for God in Britain and Beyond provides a rare and fascinating glimpse into the inner worlds of ordinary Christians in the 1960s and 1970s, revealing how the secularization of postwar society felt to average people.