Charity and social welfare / edited by Leen Van Molle.

• Charity is a word that fits well in the history of religion and churches, whereas the concept of social reform seems to belong more to the vocabulary of the modern welfare states. Christian charity found itself, during the long nineteenth century, within the maelstrom of social turmoil. In this context of social unrest, although charity managed to confirm its relevance, it was also subjected to fierce criticism, as well as to substitute state-run forms of social care and insurance. 0The history of the welfare states remained all too blind to religion. This fourth volume in the series 'Dynamics of Religious Reform' unravels how the churches in Britain and Ireland, Denmark, Sweden and Norway, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium shaped and adjusted their understanding of poverty. It reveals how they struggled with the 'social question' and often also with the modern nation states to which they belonged. Either in the periphery of public assistance or in a dynamic interplay with the state, political parties and society at large, the churches reinvented their tradition as providers of social relief. 

Ämnesord

Välgörenhet  (sao)

Religionssamfunden och samhället  (sao)

Socialetik  (sao)

Kyrkohistoria  (sao)

Historia  (sao)

Social ethics  -- Europe, Northern. (LCSH)

Church renewal  -- Europe, Northern -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)

Charities  -- Europe, Northern -- History. (LCSH)

Church work with the poor  -- Europe, Northern -- History. (LCSH)

Church and social problems  -- Europe, Northern -- History. (LCSH)

Church charities  -- Europe, Northern -- History. (LCSH)

Church and social problems.  (fast)

Church charities.  (fast)

Kyrkan och sociala problem  -- historia (sao)

History  (LCSH)

Charities  (LCSH)

Social ethics  (LCSH)

Religion and sociology  (LCSH)

Church and social problems  (LCSH)

Church history  (LCSH)

Europa  (sao)

Europe, Northern  -- Church history -- 19th century. (LCSH)

Europe, Northern.  (fast)

Genre

History.  (fast)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Ka Historia: Europa

Klassifikation

261.8325 (DDC)

940.2 (DDC)

Ka (kssb/8)