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FAITH‐BASED SOCIAL SERVICES: FROM COMMUNITARIAN TO INDIVIDUALISTIC VALUES

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Zeitschriftentitel: Zygon®
Personen und Körperschaften: McMillin, Stephen Edward
In: Zygon®, 46, 2011, 2, S. 482-490
Medientyp: E-Article
Sprache: Englisch
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Zusammenfassung: <jats:p><jats:bold>Abstract. </jats:bold> This article argues that a primary, contemporary product of four moments in the history of faith‐based social services has been a highly selective and inconsistent use of the notion of human rights by churches and church leaders. Churches still occasionally reference a communitarian sense of human rights and public good but now more commonly use the rhetoric of individual rights to contest specific political positions and social policies in the arena of the social service agencies these churches sponsor. Changing church views of human nature are not sweeping changes, but small changes of degree that still have the power to powerfully reorient social relations. In this sense, churches that sponsor social services increasingly espouse a privatized, economic, and individualistic “Civil Society” in sharp contrast to communitarian notions of social citizenship that formerly better reflected churches’ operating ontology.</jats:p>
Umfang: 482-490
ISSN: 0591-2385
1467-9744
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2010.01189.x