Lifting Up the Poor: A Dialogue on Religion, Poverty & Welfare Reform

by Mary Jo Bane and Lawrence M. Mead

Book Overview

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People who participate in debates about the causes and cures of poverty often speak from religious conviction. But those convictions are rarely made explicit or debated on their own terms. Rarely is the influence of personal religious commitment on policy decisions examined. Two of the nation's foremost scholars and policy advocates break the mold in this lively volume, the first to be published in the new Pew Forum Dialogues on Religion and Public...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815707916
• ISBN13: 9780815707912
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Length: 179 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 8.8"