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New titles from The Policy Press

'Religion and faith-based welfare: From wellbeing to ways of being' by Rana Jawad

Hardback ISBN: 978-1-84742-390-0
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-84742-389-4

"The connections between religion and welfare are growing in importance almost by the day.  Rana Jawad's contribution to the debate is particularly welcome:  it is historically informed, theoretically grounded and abundantly illustrated.  It will become required reading for academics and policy-makers alike." Professor Grace Davie, University of Exeter

“For too long social services and the welfare state in the UK have been discussed without reference to religion. In a single volume, Jawad puts that right. She offers a comprehensive overview of religion's vital role in the past and present of social welfare, and shows what an important contribution faith can still make to its theory and practice in the 21st century.” Linda Woodhead, Professor of Sociology of Religion, Lancaster University

Back cover blurb: 
This original book makes a timely and potentially controversial contribution both to the teaching of social policy and the wider debates surrounding it in Britain today. It offers a critical and theoretically sensitive overview of the role of religious values, actors and institutions in the development of state and non-state social welfare provision in Britain, combining historical discussion of the relationship between religion and social policy in Britain with a comparative theoretical discussion that covers continental Europe and North America. 

Grounded in new empirical research on religious welfare organisations from the nine major faiths in the UK, the book brings together all of these perspectives to argue for an analytical shift in the definition of wellbeing through a new concept called 'ways of being'. This reflects the moral, ideational and cultural underpinnings of social welfare. Written in a readable style, the book will appeal to students and tutors of social policy, as well as policy-makers seeking to inform themselves about the key issues surrounding faith-based welfare in modern Britain.


‘Faith-based organisations and exclusion in European cities’ Edited by Justin Beaumont and Paul Cloke

Hardback ISBN: 978-1-84742-834-9

“Social science can no longer ignore the power of faith and the faithful. Beaumont and Cloke's collection provides rich insight into the ways in which religion is remaking everyday life in European cities today.” Jane Wills, Queen Mary, University of London

Back cover blurb:
At a time of heightened neoliberal globalisation and crisis, welfare state retrenchment and desecularisation of society, amid uniquely European controversies over immigration, integration and religious-based radicalism, this timely book explores the role played by faith-based organisations (FBOs), which are growing in importance in the provision of social services in the European context.

Taking a multidisciplinary approach, the contributions to the volume present original research examples and a pan-European perspective to assess the role of FBOs in combating poverty and various expressions of exclusion and social distress in cities across Europe.

This significant and highly topical volume should become a vital reference source for the burgeoning number of studies that are likely follow and will make essential reading for students and academics in social policy, sociology, geography, politics, urban studies and theology/ religious studies.


Also published by The Policy Press

‘Down and out: Poverty and exclusion in Australia’ by Peter Saunders

Hardback ISBN: 978-1-84742-839-4
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-84742-838-7

"This book does an outstanding job of teasing out the relationships between low income, deprivation and social exclusion, analysed in an Australian context but with many lessons for anyone interested in identifying and addressing disadvantage." Brian Nolan, Professor of Public Policy, University College Dublin, Ireland

Back cover blurb:
This landmark study provides the first comprehensive assessment of the nature and associations between the three main forms of social disadvantage in Australia: poverty, deprivation and social exclusion. 

Drawing on the author's extensive research expertise and his links with welfare practitioners, it explains the limitations of existing approaches and presents new findings that build on the insights of disadvantaged Australians and views about the essentials of life, providing the basis for a new deprivation-based poverty measure.


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