Congregations and social services: What they do, how they do it, and with whom
Congregations and social services: What they do, how they do it, and with whom
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DOI：
10.1177/0899764001304003
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发表时间：
2001-12-01
影响因子：
2.8
通讯作者：
Tsitsos, W
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作者：
Chaves, M;Tsitsos, W
慈善选择政策倡议重新引起了人们对宗教在美国社会福利体系中的作用的关注。作者使用1998年全国集会研究的数据来提供会众社会服务活动的图景，强调了这幅图景中与正在进行的政策辩论相关的特征，特别是他们评估了经常被提出的关于基于宗教的社会服务的两种说法：宗教组织通过提供专注于个人问题的长期解决方案的“整体”和个性化的服务，代表了世俗或政府组织的替代方案，与世俗组织，特别是政府组织的合作可能会破坏这种社会服务方法。结果并不支持这两种说法。基于会众的社会服务不是世俗非营利性或政府支持的社会服务的替代；它们是那个世界的一部分。
The charitable choice policy initiative has renewed attention to religion's role in the U.S. social welfare system. The authors use data from the 1998 National Congregations Study to provide a portrait of congregations' social service activities, emphasizing features of this portrait that are relevant to ongoing policy debates, In particular, they assess two claims often made about religiously based social services: Religious organizations represent an alternative to secular or government organizations by providing "holistic" and personalistic services focused on long-term solutions to individuals' problems, and collaborations with secular, especially government, organizations threaten to undermine that approach to social services. Results support neither of these claims. Congregation-based social services are not an alternative to the world of secular nonprofit or government-supported social services; they are part of that world.