Faith-Based Organisations and Exclusion in European Cities - 9781847428349

Faith-Based Organisations and Exclusion in European CitiesAuthor(s): Justin Beaumont, Paul Cloke\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bristol University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Policy Press\nISBN-13: 9781847428349, 978-1847428349\nSynopsis\nAt a time of heightened neoliberal globalisation and crisis, welfare state retrenchment and desecularisation of society, amid uniquely European controversies over immigration, integration and religious-based radicalism, this timely book explores the role played by faith-based organisations (FBOs), which are growing in importance in the provision of social services in the European context.\n\nTaking a multidisciplinary approach, the contributions to the volume present original research examples and a pan-European perspective to assess the role of FBOs in combatingpoverty and various expressions of exclusion and social distress in cities across Europe.\n\nThis significant and highly topical volume should become a vital reference source for the burg.