Visions of Charity
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anthropology
Author_Rebecca Anne Allahyari
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catholicism
character
charity
charity work
christian ministry
commitment
community
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ethics
evangelism
faith
fieldwork
gratitude
homelessness
hospitality
loaves and fishes
mercy
mission
missions
moral rhetoric
moral self
morality
nonfiction
outreach
poverty
public health
redemption
religion
sacramento
salvation army
secularism
service
sobriety
social justice
volunteer
volunteer work
welfare state
witnessing
Product details
- ISBN 9780520221451
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 2000
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In the United States, public talk about charity for the poor is highly moralistic, even in our era of welfare reform. But how do we understand the actual experience of caring for the poor? This study looks at the front lines of volunteer involvement with the poor and homeless to assess what volunteer work means for those who do it. Rebecca Allahyari profiles volunteers at two charities - Loaves & Fishes and The Salvation Army - to show how they think about themselves and their work, providing new ways for discussing charity and morality. Allahyari explores these agencies' differing ideological orientations and the raced, classed, and gendered contexts they provide volunteers for doing charitable work. Drawing on participant observation, intensive interviewing, and content analysis of organizational publications, she looks in particular at the process of self-improvement for these volunteers. The competing visions of charity Allahyari finds at these two organizations reveal the complicated and contradictory politics of caring for the poor in the United States today.
Rebecca Anne Allahyari is Research Associate at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
