Religion and Social-political Action: The Catholic Church, Catholic Charities, and the American Welfare State

Adloff, Frank

doi:10.1080/03906700500485416

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“…Mainline Protestant and Catholic religious traditions share a common emphasis on social justice and participation in secular life (Beyerlein and Hipp 2006;Vogt 2007). For example, the Catholic Church operates Catholic Charities, the largest private social service organization in the United States, and this organization has taken a leadership role in promoting social justice and economic equality in the United States (Adloff 2006).…”

Section: Specifying the Linkages: Religious Environments Morality Anmentioning

confidence: 99%

Faith, Morality and Mortality: The Ecological Impact of Religion on Population Health

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Although the past decade has witnessed increased usage of ecological data to map the community-level effects of religion, the vast majority of studies in this body of scholarship continue to be plagued by two key shortcomings. First, ecological research on religion is often conducted in an atheoretical manner, one that privileges the structural character of religion while failing to demonstrate sensitivity to the substance of collectively held religious beliefs and values. Second, ecological scholarship often employs crude methodological techniques that overlook noteworthy distinctions within large religious collectivities (e.g., variants of conservative Protestantism, Catholicism and Judaism). This study charts new theoretical and methodological directions in the use of ecological data by exploring the complex linkages between religious ecology and mortality in the United States. We hypothesize that the other-worldly theology and individualistic orientation found in conservative Protestantism dampens this faith tradition's commitment to population health, thereby leading to demonstrably different outcomes in mortality by denominational families. Also, drawing on previous work that criticizes the "monolithic bloc" depiction of conservative Protestantism, we hypothesize that important distinctions in mortality will be found when sub-groups of conservative Protestants (evangelicals, Pentecostals and fundamentalists) are compared because each of these factions exhibits distinct degrees of other-worldliness. Using

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Section: Specifying the Linkages: Religious Environments Morality Anmentioning

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Faith, Morality and Mortality: The Ecological Impact of Religion on Population Health

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“…Steensland et al (2000:293–294) describe Mainline Protestants to “have typically emphasized an accommodating stance toward modernity, a proactive view on issues of social and economic justice, and pluralism in their tolerance of varied individual beliefs.” Catholic denominations include the Catholic Church, Polish National Catholic Church, and United Catholic Church, Inc. (Jones et al 2002; Steensland et al 2000). Catholicism promotes an ideology “deeply committed to the notion of social rights” (Adloff 2006:1) and “articulate[s] a special concern and love for the poor and the oppressed and a commitment to the promotion of justice” (Bane 2003:15). Catholic Charities USA, operated by the Catholic Church, is a major private provider of social services within the U.S. (Adloff 2006).…”

Section: The Religious Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Catholicism promotes an ideology “deeply committed to the notion of social rights” (Adloff 2006:1) and “articulate[s] a special concern and love for the poor and the oppressed and a commitment to the promotion of justice” (Bane 2003:15). Catholic Charities USA, operated by the Catholic Church, is a major private provider of social services within the U.S. (Adloff 2006). Given this, both Mainline Protestantism and Catholicism advance theological ideals that place a significant emphasis on worldly concerns, such as the alleviation of social ills and promotion of social equality for example (Beyerlein and Hipp 2006; Blanchard et al 2008).…”

Section: The Religious Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A recent spatial analysis of the relationship between community religious composition and non-profit density found that places with a greater presence of Mainline Protestants also had more non-profits targeting anti-poverty efforts (Polson 2016). While some Catholics support a free-market system (see Woods Jr. 2015 for an in depth treatment of this topic), others posit that Catholics “are strongly in favor of the placing of restraints on private market forces, an egalitarian distribution of material resources, and a Federal responsibility for social policy” (Adloff 2006: 2). The Catholic Church, in particular, has a long established record of policy advocacy as well as providing social services, as demonstrated with Catholic Charities USA whose explicit mission is to alleviate poverty (Bane 2000).…”

Section: The Civic Community Religious Environment and Povertymentioning

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Influence of the civic community religious environment on family poverty: A multilevel analysis

Myers

2016

Cogent Social Sciences

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This study integrates research in the civic community tradition and structuralist and individualist perspectives on poverty to assess the relationship between religious-based civic community structures and family poverty in the United States. Using multilevel analyses of 2006–2008 American Community Survey, 2000 Census of Population and Housing, and 2000 Religious Congregations and Membership Survey data, results demonstrate that the presence of Mainline Protestant and Catholics adherents within communities – measured as the percentage of a community’s population comprised of Mainline Protestant and Catholic adherents – is significantly and negatively associated with family poverty risks, net of other family and community factors. That is, in communities with a greater presence of Mainline Protestants and Catholics, there were also lower risks of families being in poverty. These findings suggest the importance of the ecology of religion within communities in understanding poverty outcomes for families.

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“…Mapes (2004) examined the role that FBO-provided social services played within Indianapolis's larger social welfare support system. In addition, Adloff (2006) described how Catholic Charities USA became a publicly active actor on a national level, involved in societal and political discourse in addition to service provision. Coleman (2001) described how American Catholic institutions played a crucial and continuous role in debates about welfare reform.…”

Section: Faith-based Organizations and The Social Welfare Systemmentioning

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Faith-Based Organizations as Service Providers and Their Relationship to Government

Bielefeld

Cleveland

2013

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

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The welfare reforms initiated in the 1990s prompted increased discussion of the use of faith-based organizations for the provision of social services. This is the second of two articles examining the progress of this debate. The first article provides the scope of inquiry, defines specific characteristics of faith-based organizations, and outlines methods used to study them. This article discusses specific services provided by faith-based organizations and how these organizations are related to the government. Faith-based organizations compared favorably to secular organizations in the services they provided while providing a somewhat narrower range of services. The implementation of Charitable Choice and other faith-based initiatives as policy required consideration of constitutional and practical issues with the implementation of collaborations and partnerships between government and faith-based organizations along with increased government funding and contracting for these organizations.

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Religion and Social-political Action: The Catholic Church, Catholic Charities, and the American Welfare State

Cited by 12 publications

References 33 publications

Faith, Morality and Mortality: The Ecological Impact of Religion on Population Health

Faith, Morality and Mortality: The Ecological Impact of Religion on Population Health

Influence of the civic community religious environment on family poverty: A multilevel analysis

Faith-Based Organizations as Service Providers and Their Relationship to Government

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