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Religion, Welfare and Social Service Provision Common Ground Religion, Welfare and Social Service Provision Common Ground Edited by Jay Poole and Bob Wineburg Printed Edition of the Special Issue Published in Religions www.mdpi.com/journal/religions Religion, Welfare and Social Service Provision Religion, Welfare and Social Service Provision Common Ground Special Issue Editors Jay Poole Bob Wineburg MDPI • Basel • Beijing • Wuhan • Barcelona • Belgrade Special Issue Editors Jay Poole Bob Wineburg University of North Carolina Greensboro University of North Carolina Greensboro USA USA Editorial Office MDPI St. Alban-Anlage 66 4052 Basel, Switzerland This is a reprint of articles from the Special Issue published online in the open access journal Religions (ISSN 2077-1444) from 2016 to 2019 (available at: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special issues/religion-welfare-socialserviceprovision) For citation purposes, cite each article independently as indicated on the article page online and as indicated below: LastName, A.A.; LastName, B.B.; LastName, C.C. Article Title. Journal Name Year, Article Number, Page Range. ISBN 978-3-03897-760-5 (Pbk) ISBN 978-3-03897-761-2 (PDF) Cover image courtesy of unsplash.com user bamagal. c 2019 by the authors. Articles in this book are Open Access and distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license, which allows users to download, copy and build upon published articles, as long as the author and publisher are properly credited, which ensures maximum dissemination and a wider impact of our publications. The book as a whole is distributed by MDPI under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND. Contents About the Special Issue Editors ..................................... vii Preface to ”Religion, Welfare and Social Service Provision” ..................... ix Robert Wineburg Introduction of the Special Issue “Religion, Welfare and Social Service Provision: Common Ground” Reprinted from: Religions 2019, 10, 143, doi:10.3390/rel10030143 ................... 1 Edward Queen History, Hysteria, and Hype: Government Contracting with Faith-Based Social Service Agencies Reprinted from: Religions 2017, 8, 22, doi:10.3390/rel8020022 ..................... 4 F. Ellen Netting and Mary Katherine O’Connor The Intersectionality of Religion and Social Welfare: Historical Development of Richmond’s Nonprofit Health and Human Services Reprinted from: Religions 2016, 7, 13, doi:10.3390/rel7010013 ..................... 33 Carl Milofsky and Brandn Green Re-Building Coal Country: A Church/University Partnership Reprinted from: Religions 2016, 7, 75, doi:10.3390/rel7060075 ..................... 48 David Campbell Small Faith-Related Organizations as Partners in Local Social Service Networks Reprinted from: Religions 2016, 7, 57, doi:10.3390/rel7050057 ..................... 61 Jay Poole, John Rife, Wayne Moore and Fran Pearson The Congregational Social Work Education Initiative: Toward a Vision for Community Health through Religious Tradition and Philanthropy Reprinted from: Religions 2016, 7, 62, doi:10.3390/rel7060062 ..................... 77 Jo Anne Schneider Envisioning Religiously Diverse Partnership Systems among Government, Faith Communities and FBOs Reprinted from: Religions 2016, 7, 105, doi:10.3390/rel7080105 .................... 88 Ian Bedford Maintaining the Connection: Strategic Approaches to Keeping the Link between Initiating Congregations and Their Social Service Off-Spring Reprinted from: Religions 2016, 7, 111, doi:10.3390/rel7090111 ....................116 Daniel Rhodes The Dual Role a Buddhist Monk Played in the American South: The Balance between Heritage and Citizenship in the Refugee Community Reprinted from: Religions 2016, 7, 50, doi:10.3390/rel7050050 .....................130 Helen Harris, Gaynor Yancey and Dennis Myers Social Work Field Education in and with Congregations and Religiously-Affiliated Organizations in a Christian Context Reprinted from: Religions 2016, 7, 52, doi:10.3390/rel7050052 .....................145 v Terry A. Wolfer, Dennis R. Myers, Edward C. Polson and Betsy Bevis Baby Boomers as Congregational Volunteers in Community Ministry Reprinted from: Religions 2017, 8, 66, doi:10.3390/rel8040066 .....................159 Mark Chaves and Alison J. Eagle Congregations and Social Services: An Update from the Third Wave of the National Congregations Study Reprinted from: Religions 2016, 7, 55, doi:10.3390/rel7050055 .....................177 Rebecca Sager and Keith Bentele Coopting the State: The Conservative Evangelical Movement and State-Level Institutionalization, Passage, and Diffusion of Faith-Based Initiatives Reprinted from: Religions 2016, 7, 71, doi:10.3390/rel7060071 .....................186 Brad R. Fulton Trends in Addressing Social Needs: A Longitudinal Study of Congregation-Based Service Provision and Political Participation Reprinted from: Religions 2016, 7, 51, doi:10.3390/rel7050051 .....................212 Dan Heist and Ram A. Cnaan Faith-Based International Development Work: A Review Reprinted from: Religions 2016, 7, 19, doi:10.3390/rel7030019 .....................228 Ramya Ramanath Unpacking Donor Retention: Individual Monetary Giving to U.S.-Based Christian Faith-Related, International Nongovernmental Organizations Reprinted from: Religions 2016, 7, 133, doi:10.3390/rel7110133 ....................245 Jay Poole Postscript of Special Issue “Religion, Welfare and Social Service Provision: Common Ground” Reprinted from: Religions 2019, 10, 138, doi:10.3390/rel10030138 ...................263 vi About the Special Issue Editors Jay Poole, Dr., is currently a Professor in the Department of Social Work in the School of Health and Human Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Dr. Poole received his Ph.D. in 2009, specializing in cultural studies. Dr. Poole is a member of the inaugural class of the Joint Master of Social Work program and was graduated in 1999 with his Master of Social Work degree. Dr. Poole also holds the Bachelor of Arts in Psychology with a minor is Sociology and an Associate of Arts degree. Dr. Poole’s research interests are in the area of community health services and identity studies. Dr. Poole’s recent work can be found in Religions, the Journal of Sexuality and Culture as well as Social Work and Christianity: An International Journal. Dr. Poole is a former member of the Oxford Roundtable, where he presented his work on the faith-based initiative in community mental health to an audience of international scholars. Dr. Poole has made numerous national and international presentations regarding his research. Dr. Poole was awarded the Mary Francis Stone award for exemplary teaching in 2007 and the School of Health and Human Sciences award for community engaged scholarship in 2016. Bob Wineburg (MSW Syracuse University; Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh) is the Jefferson Pilot Excellence Professor of Social Work at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. He is the author or coauthor of 4 books and has written many scholarly and popular articles on his specialty: the contributions the religious community makes to public life. His 1992–1995 Lilly Endowment grant enabled him to be the first social scientist to document how government agencies and the nonprofit sector in one community, Greensboro, NC plan for, implement, and evaluate the use of resources from the religious community as a natural part of their resource development process. Other researchers have since verified that this case examination of planned grassroots community partnerships is indeed a national and perhaps an international phenomenon. vii Preface to ”Religion, Welfare and Social Service Provision” For the last two decades from 30,000 feet, the average person and the distant scholar would think that religion’s contribution to public life has been embodied by a shadow boxing of sorts between the right and left. Such a broad stroke does make for good news, debate, and discussion, but does not capture the thousands, if not hundreds of thousands partnerships among religious communities, government, nonprofits, to fill the gaps mostly created by a world-wide shrinking of the “welfare state” and aimed at the “public good.” We are calling for papers that capture how houses of worship at the ground level, are increasingly “houses of service.” Papers in this Special Issue will be focused on building a better understanding of the intersection of general welfare policy, religion, and religion and service as it takes shape in the voluntary actions of the religious community. The overall focus is on assembling, in one volume, perhaps the first set of what may become seminal articles that cross “disciplinary boundaries” and address what is on the ground at the intersection of religion, public health, social work, human services, theology, nonprofit management, medicine, community psychology, theology, and other theoretical and especially professional service fields by defining and exploring how and why partnerships work or don’t work in reality. A broad and long term goal of the volume would be to begin developing scholarship that better shapes best practices where the intersection of religion, welfare, and social service provision converge. Jay Poole, Bob Wineburg Special Issue Editors ix religions Editorial Introduction of the Special Issue “Religion, Welfare and Social Service Provision: Common Ground” Robert Wineburg Jefferson Pilot Excellence Professor, Department of Social Work, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1400 Spring Garden St, Greensboro, NC 27412, USA; [email protected]
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