SOCW 410 3a

RELIGION AND SOCIAL WELFARE POLICY

Week 3

What’s on deck?

• Cake

• Group Discussions

• Religion and Policy in the US

• Assignments: Infographic & Next Reading

Group Discussions

• Discuss the most important points of the early history and development of social services.

• Create a timeline using your poster paper that includes the top 5-10 most important points according to your group.

• Appoint a person to report back to the class your decisions.

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Religious Antecedents of Welfare Statism

• The roots of social welfare go deep into the soil of Judeo-Christian tradition

• Church, State, and Social Welfare in Colonial America

– Most settlers in colonial America were poor

– European Protestants valued work



• The Second Great Awakening

– General spirit of reform

– Clashes between church and state by the New England Sabbatarian campaign

• The Civil War Era

– The evangelistic fervor of the Second Great Awakening was rekindled



– Ushered in a new period for relief activities

• The Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

– Protestant discrimination contributed to Catholic and Jewish sectarianism

– Immigration and industrialization made significant impacts on Protestant optimism


The Rise of Social Work as a Profession

• Urban Needs during Industrialization

– Life in late nineteenth-century America was hard

• Charity Organization Societies

– Had offices in most American cities by 1900

– The work was carried out by a committee of volunteers and agency representatives



• Settlement Houses

– Primarily set up in immigrant neighborhoods

• By wealthy people, college students, unattached women, teachers, doctors, and lawyers

– Who themselves moved into the slums as residents

• Jane Addams established Hull House in 1889



• The Social Casework Agency

– Emerged during the “Progressive Era”

– The need for scientifically based techniques

and the socialization of charity

• The Progressive Movement

– A reaction to heartlessness that characterized

a large segment of American society



• Prohibition and the Twenties

– The Protestantism of the 1920s held little resemblance to its 19th century predecessor

• The Great Depression and New Deal

– The Great Depression called for emergency measures

• The New Deal programs were the response



• The Reawakening of a Religious Social Conscience and the Great Society

– Rosa Parks

– Martin Luther King Jr.- Civil Rights Movement

– Lyndon B. Johnson

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Voting Rights Act of 1965

In all, over 1000 pieces of legislation were passed as par of Johnson’s great society



• The Continuing Decline of Mainline Influence

– White religious leadership

– The influence of liberation theology on mainline thought

• The New Christian Right

– Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority was committed to overturning the secular trends Falwell interpreted as moral deterioration.



– Commentators on religion & politics often heralded the decline of the Christian Right

• Religion and Social Policy

– The United States is one of the most highly religious countries in the industrialized world

– Marvin Olasky was among the first to advocate for faith-based provision of social services


Conclusion

• Tension between religion and social and

public policy

– Continues to dominate American political life

in areas of:

• Women’s health, the environment, education and

science

Coming Up

• Read Trattner Chapters 6, 7, 8, and 9

• Summary of Trattner Reading

• Infographic Due February 5

Social Policy Forum

• Article Title

• Date

• Source (and target audience)

• Relation to Social Welfare Policy

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SOCW 410 3a

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