Faith, Politics, and Power: The Politics of Faith-Based Initiatives
During the past 10 years, faith-based initiatives have received increased public attention. The hope has been a new era of social support where private organizations take the lead in alleviating social problems. Faith, Politics, and Power argues that faith-based initiatives are primarily a symbolic...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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2011
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Sociology of religion
Year: 2011, Volume: 72, Issue: 1, Pages: 119-121 |
| Review of: | Faith, politics, and power (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010) (Franzen, Aaron)
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| Summary: | During the past 10 years, faith-based initiatives have received increased public attention. The hope has been a new era of social support where private organizations take the lead in alleviating social problems. Faith, Politics, and Power argues that faith-based initiatives are primarily a symbolic commodity that results not in social solutions, but in an altered church/state relationship. Sager, focusing on the “disparity between practical and symbolic action” (viii), argues that the proof of the initiatives’ symbolic nature is that they are both a success and a failure. There is success in the creation of offices, positions, and public policy that have brought church and state closer together, redefining their relationship. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srr005 |