The Varieties of Faith‐Related Agencies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6366347 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Steven Rathgeb Smith (0000-0002-8651-0460, University of Washington), Michael R Sosin (University of Chicago) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 651-670 |
| Publication date | 2001-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Public Administration Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-3352 • E-ISSN: 1540-6210 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/0033-3352.00137 |
| OpenAlex | W2164366908 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 103 |
| References cited | 35 |
Although some recent literature suggests religious social service agencies can help governments reach important social program goals, the true social organization and services of the agencies remain in dispute. This article interviews officials in the wide class of “faith‐related” agencies in two cities to consider two aspects of this issue: the ties or “coupling” of agencies to faith, and the impact of coupling on agency structure and service programming. The results suggest that many sampled agencies are loosely tied to faith in terms of resources, more tightly coupled in terms of authority, and moderately coupled with respect to culture; that certain aspects of service‐delivery technology are heavily secularized in many agencies; that faith is more influential in such matters as the agencies’ choices of services; and that the larger, potentially more secularized agencies that might be least likely to be characterized as faith based balance differing sets of resources and thereby can more fully deliver services that arguably express faith in action. Given this finding and that most agencies profess a focus on protecting the dignity and rights of clients rather than on individual responsibility or other themes that are stressed by some recent policy proposals, governments need to be extremely selective in funding agencies to promote those proposals’ themes
Agency (philosophy · Business · Dignity · Faith · Faith-Based Organizations · Political science · Public relations · Secularization · Service (business · Social science · Social Welfare · Sociology · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Marketing · Public Administration · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development
Setting the Context
Finding Congregations
Social Capital, Community Resilience, and Faith‐Based Organizations in Disaster Recovery
Faith-based Organizations and Microfinance
Human Rights Collaboration and the Communicative Practice of Religious Identity
Community-Wide Planning for Faith-Based Service Provision
“Bringing heaven down to earth”
Reconsidering the Implementation Strategy in Faith-Based Policy Initiatives
Faith and Collaboration
Congregations and Social Services
Religious Organizations
Estimating the Value of the Social Services Provided by Faith-Based Organizations in the United States
Beyond Charitable Choice
Funding Good Works
Evaluating the strength of faith
The devil is in the details
Congregations as Social Service Providers
How faith‐based social service organizations manage secular pressures associated with government funding
Faith-Based versus Secular Providers of Social Services -Differences in What, How, and Where
Faith-Based Assumptions About Performance
Unintended Consequence of the Faith-Based Initiative
Congregations in Low-Income Neighborhoods and the Implications for Social Welfare Policy Research
Shaping service delivery through faith-based service inclusion
Comparing Faith-Based and Secular Community Service Corporations in Pittsburgh and Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Typology of Religious Characteristics of Social Service and Educational Organizations and Programs
Defining Faith-Based Organizations and Understanding Them Through Research
Networks of Adjacent Action Situations in Polycentric Governance
Religious Elements of Church-Based Social Service Programs
Charitable Choice and Faith-Based Welfare
The Inter-Organizational Ties That Bind
Exploring why religious faith may distinguish faith‐based from non‐faith‐based NGOs
Agents, Armies, Allies
Nonprofit Trusteeship in Different Contexts
Saving souls, serving society
Capturing Diversity
Religious Versus Secular Human Service Organizations
Where's the Faith in Faith-based Organizations? Measures and Correlates of Religiosity in Faith-based Social Service Coalitions
Charitable Choice
Exploring the Mission-Development Nexus Through Stories from Christian ‘Missionaries’ in Bangladesh
Advancing Discussion of Federal Faith-based Social Service Policies through Overview and Application of Established Health Services Research Models
Religion and Addiction Recovery in Vietnam
Playground or Church? Implications for Public Administration from Trinity Lutheran v. Comer
Theorizing Hybridity
Imams and Patrons
Social work and faith-based agencies in Sweden and Australia
Assessing the Effectiveness of Faith-Based Programs
Faith-Based Programs and the Role of Empirical Research
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Faith-Based Welfare Agencies
Evaluation of the practices of faith-based aid organizations from the social work perspective
Who Is Welcoming the Stranger? Exploring Faith‐Based Service Provision to Refugees in Philadelphia
How Do They Fit
Testing Faith
A Faith-Based Alternative Youth Education Program
Spirituality and Faith-Based Social Services
The Difference of Faith
Investigating the Implementation of Charitable Choice
Setting the Context
Finding Congregations
The Substance of Things Hoped For
Teaching About Faith-Based Organizations in the Social Work Curriculum
Some Useful Sources
How Do Faith-Based Organizations Compare to Secular Providers? Nonprofit Directors' and Poor Women's Assessments of FBOs
Securing Moral Authority
The Role of Faith in Christian Faith-Based Humanitarian Agencies
Does Religiosity Influence Retention Strategies in Nonprofit Organizations
Harmony Amidst Discord
Faith-Based Organization and Transnational Voluntarism in China
Defining and Estimating the Scope of U.S. Faith-Based International Humanitarian Aid Organizations
Faith-Based Aid to People Affected by Conflict in Jos, Nigeria
Privatization And Prayer
Faith, Welfare, and the City
Catholic Schools in the Marketplace
The Implications of Public Opinion for Public Managers
Belonging, Believing, Behaving
Modes of Attentiveness
Faith-based efforts to improve prisoner reentry
Expressions of Charity and Action towards Justice
Faith in the Neoliberalisation of Post‐katrina New Orleans
Faith‐Based Social Service Organizations and Government Funding
Faith-Based Human Services Initiatives
Empirical Evidence on Faith‐Based Organizations in an Era of Welfare Reform
Faith, values, and metaphysical positionality in qualitative research
Positioning Missionaries in Development Studies, Policy, and Practice
What Do They Know, and Whom Do They Hold Accountable? Citizens in the Government-Nonprofit Contracting Relationship
Regulatory intermediaries and value conflicts in policy implementation
The Capacities and Challenges of Faith‐Based Human Service Organizations
The Distributive Politics of “Compassion in Action
New Responsibilities of Faith‐Related Agencies
Faith-Based Interventions for At-Risk Latino Youths
From Private to Religious Patriarchy
Faith-Based and Secular Social Service Agencies in Pittsburgh
Religious Organizations
Mixing God's Work and the Public Business
Thinking about faith-based organisations in development
A modified typology to classify secular NGOs and faith-based organisations in development contexts
Contested Accommodation on the Meso Level
Envisioning Religiously Diverse Partnership Systems among Government, Faith Communities and FBOs
Administrative Challenges Facing Nonprofit Worksites Providing Work or Work-like Experiences for Welfare Recipients
The activism of young muslims in Italy
Religion in Public Action
Organizations
The newer deal
Congregation & community
Understanding Nonprofit Funding
The iron cage revisited institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields
Strategic Responses to Institutional Processes
Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital
The Theory Of Social And Economic Organization
Integrating Content on Organized Religion into Macropractice Courses
Our Hidden Safety Net
Value-Rational Authority and Professional Organizations
When the Bottom Line Is Faithfulness
Nonprofits for Hire
The Restructuring of American Religion
Public subsidies and charitable giving
Power Plays
Social Service
Church-Related Agencies and Social Welfare
Secular and Religious Funding of Church-Related Agencies
The Political Economy of Public Organizations
Frame Alignment Processes, Micromobilization, and Movement Participation
Nonprofit Organizations, Government, and the Welfare State
Church and State in Social Welfare
Varieties of Religious Presence
The Limits of Social Policy
Social Capital and Political Culture
Coleman Revisited
Caveat Emptor
Work in Progress Toward a New Paradigm for the Sociological Study of Religion in the United States
Institutionalized Organizations
Organizing the poor
| Unique citing works | 103 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,12 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2026 (26) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 101 |