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Faith-Based Organisations and Exclusion in European Cities

Faith-Based Organisations and Exclusion in European Cities

Faith-Based Organisations and Exclusion in European Cities

Faith-Based Organisations and Exclusion in European Cities

Overview

At a time of heightened neoliberal globalisation and crisis, welfare state retrenchment and desecularisation of society, amid uniquely European controversies over immigration, integration and religious-based radicalism, this timely book explores the role played by faith-based organisations (FBOs), which are growing in importance in the provision of social services in the European context. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, the contributions to the volume present original research examples and a pan-European perspective to assess the role of FBOs in combating poverty and various expressions of exclusion and social distress in cities across Europe. This significant and highly topical volume should become a vital reference source for the burgeoning number of studies that are likely follow and will make essential reading for students and academics in social policy, sociology, geography, politics, urban studies and theology/ religious studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781847428349
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Publication date: 11/01/2012
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 272
Product dimensions: 6.60(w) x 9.50(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Justin Beaumont is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen in The Netherlands. He has developed new enquires on social interventions within postsecular cities, as well as faith-based organizations and social justice in urban areas. His articles appear in International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Urban Studies, Environment and Planning A, Space and Polity, Area and TESG. Paul Cloke is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Exeter, UK. Over the last decade he has been involved in research that takes a new look geographies of ethics, focusing in particular on responses to homelessness, the new politics of ethical consumption and the growing significance of faith-based or theo-ethics in contemporary society. Paul is currently engaged in research on postsecularism and faith-based interventions in a range of social and caring arenas.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Notes on contributors

Foreword Ram A. Cnaan

1 Introduction to the study of faith-based organisations and exclusion in European cities Justin Beaumont Paul Cloke 1

Part I Defining relations of faith-based organisations

2 State-religion relations and welfare regimes in Europe José Luis Romanillos Justin Beaumont Mustafa sen 37

3 Spaces of postsecular engagement in citie Agatha Herman Justin Beaumont Paul Cloke Andrés Walliser 59

4 Faith-based organisations, urban governance and welfare state retrenchment Ingemar Elander Maarten Davelaar Andrés Walliser 81

5 Radical faith praxis? Exploring the changing theological landscape of Christian faith motivation Paul Cloke Samuel Thomas Andrew Williams 105

6 Ethical citizenship? Faith-based volunteers and the ethics of providing services for homeless people Paul Cloke Sarah Johnsen Jon May 127

Part II Sectoral studies

7 Changing policies: how faith-based organisations participate in poverty policies Danielle Dierckx Jan Vranken Ingemar Elander 155

8 Moralising the poor? Faith-based organisations, the Big Society and contemporary workfare policy Andrew Williams 173

9 A shelter from the storm: faith-based organisations and providing relief for the homeless Maarten Davelaar Wendy Kerstens 199

10 Turkish Islamic organisations: a comparative study in Germany, the Netherlands and Turkey Jürgen Friedrichs Jennifer Kiöckner Mustafa sen Nynke de Witte 219

11 Convictional communities Samuel Thomas 243

12 Conclusion: the faith-based organisation phenomenon Paul Cloke Justin Beaumont 265

Index 279

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Very accessible and well written...it will make a timely addition to libraries across Europe" Journal of Church and State

"Social science can no longer ignore the power of faith and the faithful. Beaumont and Cloke's collection provides rich insight into the ways in which religion is remaking everyday life in European cities today." Jane Wills, Queen Mary, University of London

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