[PDF] When Sacred And Secular Mix eBook

Author : Stephen V. Monsma
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 29,97 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780742508187

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Explores the world of religiously based, private, nonprofit organizations and their receipt of public funds. [Introduction].

Author : Stephen V. Monsma
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 11,63 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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Crucial reading for anyone interested in constitutional issues.

Author : Stephen V. Monsma
Publisher :
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 14,46 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Church and state
ISBN : 9780847681839

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Despite Americans' traditional emphasis on the separation of church and state, both in theory and practice, few are aware of the hundreds of millions of public dollars that flow annually to religiously based nonprofit organizations. Based on a massive nationwide survey of nearly 800 such groups, Stephen V. Monsma's important study explores the implications of this financial partnership. The author develops a new legal principle, positive neutrality, that both justifies public funds going to religious nonprofit groups and draws boundaries between permissible and impermissible use of public funds. This is crucial reading for all Americans concerned about the relationship between church and state.

Author : Robert Laurence Moore
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 21,33 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780664223700

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This book is an intriguing narrative of the interplay between American religion and patterns of American culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. R. Laurence Moore considers the ways nationalism, the separation of church and state, democratic pluralism, and shifts in boundaries between secular and sacred practice have shaped American religion for the past two hundred years.

Author : Virinder S. Kalra
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 48,44 MB
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1441108661

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How does the sacred/secular opposition explain itself in the context of musical production? This volume traces this binary as it frames Western Classical music and Indian Classical music in the 18th and 19th centuries, laying the ground for a contemporary exploration of what is ostensibly sacred music in South Asia. Offering a potent critique of musicological knowledge-making, Virinder S. Kalra explores examples of South Asian musics in various domains and traverses a new cartography of music in which the sacred and the secular overlap. Drawing on examples which include Qawwali, kirtan and popular devotional genres, Sacred and Secular Musics offers new empirical material, as well as new insights into conceptualising religion and music, and the ways in which music performs sacredness and secularity across the contested India-Pakistan border in the region of Punjab. Through its deconstruction of the sacred/secular opposition, Sacred and Secular Musics explores the relationship of religion and music to wider questions of religion and politics. Its postcolonial approach brings Asia into the Western sacred/secular opposition, and provides a set of analytical tools - a language and range of theories - to allow further exploration of non-western religious music.

Author : Stephen V. Monsma
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 24,15 MB
Release : 2009-11-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0472022563

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Putting Faith in Partnerships addresses a major conceptual change in American domestic policy, begun by Reagan and now fully realized by the Bush administration: the shift of responsibility for social services from the federal government to states and communities. In this groundbreaking study of a politically controversial topic---the debut offering in Alan Wolfe's Contemporary Political and Social Issues series---author Stephen Monsma avoids overheated rhetoric in favor of a careful, critical analysis of the hard evidence on whether public-private partnerships really work. The book is based on in-depth studies of social service programs in Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Dallas. By examining public-private partnerships between government offices and nonprofit organizations, Monsma seeks to understand how these partnerships affect the balance between government's efforts to deal with social problems and the rights of individual citizens to control their own lives. Putting Faith in Partnerships answers many previously unanswered questions in what may be the most controversial public policy debate today: about the feasibility and wisdom of government agencies forming partnerships with private organizations to provide essential public social services. Stephen V. Monsma is Professor of Political Science at Pepperdine University. He has served as director of the Office of Quality Review in Michigan's Department of Social Services and is a widely recognized expert on the role of faith-based organizations in social service programs.

Author : D. Schumm
Publisher : Springer
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 45,72 MB
Release : 2011-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0230339484

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This collection of essays examines how diverse religions of the world represent, understand, theologize, theorize and respond to disability and chronic illness. Contributors employ a variety of methodological approaches including ethnography, historical, cultural, or textual analysis, personal narrative, and theological/philosophical investigation.