Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Table; Preface; 1 The WREP Project: Building Bridges; 2 Majority Churches as Agents of European Welfare: A Sociological Approach; 3 A Gendered Perspective on Welfare and Religion in Europe; 4 Thinking Theologically about Welfare and Religion; 5 Welfare and Religion in Europe: Themes, Theories and Tensions; Appendix: The WREP Team; Bibliography; Index
Summary
This book poses new questions about the religious, the secular and the implications of each for the process known as secularization. Looking carefully at the gendered nature of care, they ask why women predominate so noticeably in both religion and welfare at least in the delivery of service. The topical issues in this book include the increased visibility of religion in the public sphere, the anxieties of European populations about the welfare state and the centrality of gender to both questions
