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Suffering, Vice, And Justice: Religious Imaginaries and Welfare Agencies in Post‐War Melbourne
Author(s) -
MURPHY JOHN
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of religious history
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.117
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1467-9809
pISSN - 0022-4227
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9809.2007.00549.x
Subject(s) - faith , welfare , economic justice , diversity (politics) , inheritance (genetic algorithm) , state (computer science) , dimension (graph theory) , public administration , sociology , political science , welfare state , political economy , law , theology , politics , philosophy , biochemistry , chemistry , mathematics , algorithm , computer science , pure mathematics , gene
Faith‐based welfare agencies vary considerably, dependent on the nature of their leadership, the inheritance of their services, and the niche that they are assigned by state policy in the mixed economy of welfare. Another dimension of their diversity can derive from the discursive structures of their faith. This article examines the theological inheritances that shaped how three key welfare agencies in post‐war Melbourne imagined what they were doing, as they drew on the diversity of teachings about the poor derived from the Catholic, Anglican, and Methodist traditions.