Religion and welfare in Europe

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-4473-4352-3
Verlag: Policy Press

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 491 g

Using welfare as a prism, Religion and Welfare in Europe explores regional conceptions and variations in welfare and religion across Europe.

Methodological approaches to research and practice draw thematic comparisons on these issues using case studies focused on gendered and minority perspectives as they relate to the varied provision of social welfare in selected European countries.

Contributors offer comparative insights on majority-minority relations concerning practices, patterns and mechanisms of social welfare provision, explaining how these lead to conflict, cohesion or – as is so often the case – the grey area in between.

The book will be of interest not only to religion and social policy researchers, but to welfare practitioners and policy advisors with a particular interest in the interaction between religion, social welfare, minorities and gender.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Molokotos-Liederman, Lina

Weitere Mitwirkende

Davie, Grace

Lé Mon, Martha Middlemiss

Pessi, Anne Birgitta

Fokas, Effie

Frisina, Annalisa

Minganti, Pia Karlsson

Leis-Peters, Annette

Molokotos-Liederman, Lina

Markoviti, Margarita

Sinisa, Zrinkscak

Laiho, Marjukka

Helge Angell, Olav

Repstad, Pal

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Dienste, Soziale Organisationen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction ~ Anders Bäckström

Part one: Thinking methodologically: approaches to research and practice;

Between contextuality and comparability: a dilemma in qualitative comparative case studies ~ Pål Repstad

Using case studies in religion, values and welfare research ~ Olav Helge Angell and Lina Molokotos-Liederman

Social cohesion: from research to practice ~ Olav Helge Angell, Marjukka Laiho, Anne Birgitta Pessi and Siniša Zrinšcak

Part two: Thinking regionally: key case studies in welfare and religion in Europe

The WaVE project as a record of religious and social transformations in northern Europe ~ Anders Bäckström

The intersections of state, family and Church in Italy and Greece ~ Margarita Markoviti and Lina Molokotos-Liederman

Religion, welfare and gender: the post-communist experience ~ Siniša Zrinšcak

Part three: Gendered and minority perspectives

Understanding religious minority communities as civil society actors ~ Annette Leis-Peters

Striving to live the good life: the tension between self-fulfilment and family obligations for women in northern England ~ Martha Middlemiss Lé Mon

Religion as a resource or as a source of exclusion?: The case of Muslim women’s shelters ~ Pia Karlsson Minganti

The moral and gendered crisis of the Italian welfare system seen through the prism of migrant women’s reproductive health ~ Annalisa Frisina

Part four: Drawing the threads together

Welfare and values in Europe: insights drawn from a comparative cross-country analysis ~ Effie Fokas

Afterword ~ Grace Davie

Über Autor(innen)

Molokotos-Liederman, Lina
Lina Molokotos-Liederman is Affiliated Researcher at the Woolf Institute and Scientific Collaborator at University of Fribourg.

Molokotos-Liederman, Lina
Lina Molokotos-Liederman is Affiliated Researcher at the Woolf Institute and Scientific Collaborator at University of Fribourg.

Pessi, Anne Birgitta
University of Helsinki

Lé Mon, Martha Middlemiss
University of Uppsala

Lina Molokotos-Liederman is a Visiting Fellow at the Uppsala Religion and Society Research Centre at Uppsala University, Sweden, and a Post-Doc Associate of the Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités (GSRL/CNRS), Paris. She holds a PhD in sociology of religion from the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE), Paris.

Anders Bäckström is Professor Emeritus in Sociology of Religion at Uppsala University. He established both the Uppsala Religion and Society Research Centre and The Impact of Religion programme.

Grace Davie is Professor Emeritus in Sociology at the University of Exeter, UK and senior adviser to The Impact of Religion programme.