Policy Press

Religion and Welfare in Europe

Gendered and Minority Perspectives

Edited by Lina Molokotos-Liederman With Anders Backstrom and Grace Davie

Published

Sep 19, 2018

Page count

320 pages

ISBN

978-1447343523

Dimensions

234 x 156 mm

Imprint

Policy Press

Published

Sep 13, 2017

Page count

320 pages

ISBN

978-1447318972

Dimensions

234 x 156 mm

Imprint

Policy Press

Published

Sep 13, 2017

Page count

320 pages

ISBN

978-1447334781

Dimensions

Imprint

Policy Press

Published

Sep 13, 2017

Page count

320 pages

ISBN

978-1447334798

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Imprint

Policy Press
Religion and Welfare in Europe

Using welfare as a prism, Religion and Welfare in Europe explores regional conceptions and variations in welfare and religion across Europe.

Methodological approaches to research and practice draw thematic comparisons on these issues using case studies focused on gendered and minority perspectives as they relate to the varied provision of social welfare in selected European countries.

Contributors offer comparative insights on majority-minority relations concerning practices, patterns and mechanisms of social welfare provision, explaining how these lead to conflict, cohesion or – as is so often the case – the grey area in between.

The book will be of interest not only to religion and social policy researchers, but to welfare practitioners and policy advisors with a particular interest in the interaction between religion, social welfare, minorities and gender.

Lina Molokotos-Liederman is a Visiting Fellow at the Uppsala Religion and Society Research Centre at Uppsala University, Sweden, and a Post-Doc Associate of the Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités (GSRL/CNRS), Paris. She holds a PhD in sociology of religion from the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE), Paris.

Anders Bäckström is Professor Emeritus in Sociology of Religion at Uppsala University. He established both the Uppsala Religion and Society Research Centre and The Impact of Religion programme.

Grace Davie is Professor Emeritus in Sociology at the University of Exeter, UK and senior adviser to The Impact of Religion programme.

Introduction ~ Anders Bäckström

Part one: Thinking methodologically: approaches to research and practice;

Between contextuality and comparability: a dilemma in qualitative comparative case studies ~ Pål Repstad

Using case studies in religion, values and welfare research ~ Olav Helge Angell and Lina Molokotos-Liederman

Social cohesion: from research to practice ~ Olav Helge Angell, Marjukka Laiho, Anne Birgitta Pessi and Siniša Zrinščak

Part two: Thinking regionally: key case studies in welfare and religion in Europe

The WaVE project as a record of religious and social transformations in northern Europe ~ Anders Bäckström

The intersections of state, family and Church in Italy and Greece ~ Margarita Markoviti and Lina Molokotos-Liederman

Religion, welfare and gender: the post-communist experience ~ Siniša Zrinščak

Part three: Gendered and minority perspectives

Understanding religious minority communities as civil society actors ~ Annette Leis-Peters

Striving to live the good life: the tension between self-fulfilment and family obligations for women in northern England ~ Martha Middlemiss Lé Mon

Religion as a resource or as a source of exclusion?: The case of Muslim women’s shelters ~ Pia Karlsson Minganti

The moral and gendered crisis of the Italian welfare system seen through the prism of migrant women’s reproductive health ~ Annalisa Frisina

Part four: Drawing the threads together

Welfare and values in Europe: insights drawn from a comparative cross-country analysis ~ Effie Fokas

Afterword ~ Grace Davie