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Faith, Politics, and Power

The Politics of Faith-Based Initiatives
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During the 2000 presidential campaign, George W. Bush made faith-based social services one of the centerpieces of his domestic agenda. These "faith-based initiatives," supporters argued, would reduce poverty, ease the strain on an overburdened welfare system, and prove more effective than government programs. Opponents feared rampant proselytizing with government funds. Instead, these practices created a system in which neither the greatest hopes of its supporters, nor the greatest fears of its opponents, have been realized. The product of five years of in-depth research, Rebecca Sager's Faith, Politics, and Power offers a systematic examination of where and how these programs were implemented, arguing that faith-based initiatives strayed from supporters' original aim of helping the poor, and instead were used as tools to gain political power by the Republican Party and the conservative evangelical movement.

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Rebecca Sager is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Loyola Marymount University.
Release date Australia
July 12th, 2012
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  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Undergraduate
Pages
264
Dimensions
156x234x15
ISBN-13
9780199920266
Product ID
19751292

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