Miguel Glatzer & Paul Christopher Manuel 
Faith-Based Organizations and Social Welfare [PDF ebook] 
Associational Life and Religion in Contemporary Africa and Latin America

The case studies in this volume examine the activities of faith-based institutions in a representative sample of African and Latin American countries, including societies with and without a dominant religious tradition, and states with different levels and types of government-provided social services. Among other questions, the chapters examine the types of social service activities faith-based organizations engage in; their effect on civil society and democratic processes; their influence on the character of local and national communities; and what new pressures would be brought to bear on state-provided services if these faith-based organizations ceased to exist.

Spis treści

Part 1: Theoretical Considerations.- Chapter 1. Religion, Faith-Based Organizations and Welfare Delivery in Contemporary Africa and Latin America (
Miguel Glatzer, Paul Christopher Manuel, and Christine A. Gustafson).- Chapter 2. The Complex Context for Social Welfare and Human Capacity Strategies in Africa (
Katherine Marshall).- Chapter 3.“Africa is not a country”: General Overview of Faith-based Services and Social Welfare in Africa (
Nadine Bowers Du Toit and Barnabe Anzuruni Msabah).- Part 2: Societies With a Dominant Religious Marketplace.- Chapter 4. Muslim NGOs in Contemporary Ghana (
Holger Weiss).- Chapter 5. Faith-based Organizations and the Challenge of Developmental Social Welfare in Democratic South Africa (
Ignatius Swart) .- Chapter 6. Evolutionary Effectiveness of Faith-based Organizations Public Agency in Kenya (
Richard Muko Ochanda, and Humphrey Waliang’i Wafula).- Chapter 7. From Prominence to Derision? Chile’s Religious Actors Confront a Turning Point in their Social Welfare Roles (
Mathew Carnes and Raimundo Salas Schweikart).- Chapter 8. The Church of the Poor, Civil Society, and Democracy in Southern Mexico: Oaxaca 1960s–2010s (
Juan Manuel Lombera).- Part 3: Societies with Mixed Religious Marketplaces.- Chapter 9. Faith-based Organizations, Society, and the State in Chad (
Mayke Kaag).- Chapter 10. Faith-based Organizations and Social Welfare: Associational Life and Religion in Nigeria (
Omobolaji O. Olarinmoye).- Chapter 11. Faith-based Organizations, Society, and the State in Mozambique (
Victoria Armando Chifeche).- Chapter 12. The Contributions of Faith-based Organizations in Uruguay: The most Secularized Sountry in Latin America (
Néstor Da Costa).

O autorze

Miguel Glatzer is professor of political science at La Salle University in Philadelphia.
Christine A. Gustafson is professor of politics at Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire.
Paul Manuelis a research fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown