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Although students and scholars of social problems have often acknowledged the role of religion, no thorough examinations of the relation between the two have em
Poverty, unemployment, limited access to health care: the litany of ills plaguing contemporary society seems endless, reflective of the pragmatic and philosophi
The original analysis in this book presents a new and comprehensive narrative of social welfare in the Middle East through an examination of the role of religio
This book radically revises established knowledge in comparative welfare state studies and introduces a new perspective on how religion shaped modern social pro