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Our volume has set out to examine the dynamics of social service delivery with a principal focus on faith-based organizations. Our qualitative and comparative approach has analyzed the contours of welfare service provision across different social service domains (family , housing, addiction recovery) , provider types (faith-intensive, faith-related, secular ), and locales (Mississippi , Michigan , and Washington -Oregon ). A consistent analytical theme has also been explored throughout this volume in the form of the three C’s of social service provision. Using what we called a layered case study approach, we have been mindful of programmatic content (service delivery dynamics), organizational culture (agency mission, values , etc.), and ecological context (community environment , religious landscape, etc.).
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Avishai (2008).
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Bartkowski and Regis (2003).
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Aron and Sharkey (2002).
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Goggin and Orth (2002).
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For an excellent comparison of faith-based organizations across national contexts, see Clarke and Jennings (2008).
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Nagel (2013).
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Porter (2017).
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One of our regrets is that, despite the wealth of agency-level data we were able to collect and analyze for this volume, securing interview data from program participants in sufficient numbers to warrant sustained analysis proved to be quite difficult and was restricted largely to Chap. 6. As work on this front continues, we hope that the insights that have emerged from our extensive interactions with social service workers can be complemented by an even wider range of perspectives—aspirations and frustrations alike—from those these programs are designed to serve. For an excellent treatment of recipients of faith-based services, see Chap. 6 of Wuthnow (2004).
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Bartkowski, J.P., Grettenberger, S.E. (2018). Conclusion: Promising Partners or Strange Bedfellows? Faith-Based Providers and Government Funders. In: The Arc of Faith-Based Initiatives. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90668-3_7
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