{"product_id":"9781847423894","title":"Religion and Faith-based Welfare: From Wellbeing to Ways of Being","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis original book makes a timely—and potentially controversial—contribution to social policy debates. Rana Jawad examines the workings of religious welfare organizations from the world’s major faiths, offering a critical overview of the role religious values, actors, and institutions have on social programs. Combining historical discussions of the relationship between religion and social policy in Britain with a comparative theoretical discussion that covers continental Europe and North America, she brings a host of perspectives together, arguing for an analytical shift in the definition of well-being through a concept she calls “ways of being,” which, she argues, better reflects the moral, ideological, and cultural underpinnings of social welfare.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRana Jawad \u003c\/b\u003eis a lecturer in social policy at the University of Bath and author of \u003ci\u003eReligion and Social Welfare in the Middle East\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by the Policy Press. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Policy Press at the Univ of Bristol","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47032587845872,"sku":"9781847423894","price":47.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781847423894_p0.jpg?v=1769894822","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781847423894","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}