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Author Allahyari, Rebecca Anne, 1963-

Title Visions of charity : volunteer workers and moral community / Rebecca Anne Allahyari
Published Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 285 pages)
Contents Preliminaries; CONTENTS; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Performing Personalist Hospitality; 2. Administering Salvationism; 3. Moral Selving within Personalist Hospitality; 4. Moral Selving within Salvationism; 5. The Politics of Charity; Epilogue; Notes; References; Index
Summary In the US, public talk about charity is highly moralistic, even in an era of welfare reform. This study looks at the front lines of volunteer involvement with the poor and homeless at two specific charities to assess what volunteer work means for those who do it
Analysis Teologi Teologi
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-271) and index
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Subject Salvation Army -- History -- 20th century
Loaves & Fishes (Organization : Sacramento, Calif.) -- History
Salvation Army -- California -- Sacramento -- History -- 20th century
SUBJECT Loaves & Fishes (Organization : Sacramento, Calif.) fast
Salvation Army fast
Subject Church work with the homeless -- California -- Sacramento -- Case studies
Voluntarism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- Case studies
Helping behavior -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- Case studies
Social movements -- California -- Sacramento -- Case studies
RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
RELIGION -- Christian Life -- Social Issues.
Church work with the homeless
Helping behavior -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Social movements
Voluntarism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
California -- Sacramento
Genre/Form Case studies
History
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780520935327
0520935322
0585390134
9780585390130
0520221443
9780520221444