The primary research question that guides this dissertation is: What is the relationship between neoliberalism and welfare governance? In contrast to the idea that market reforms bring the destruction of social welfare provision, I argue that market reforms are actually accompan…
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This study examines how rabbinic texts from the land of Israel explain and respond to poverty. Through this investigation, I also analyze images of the poor in this literature, asking whether the rabbis considered poor persons to be full participants in communal religious life. …
This thesis is an organisational ethnography that seeks to make an original contribution to anthropological knowledge through an iterative interrogation of neoliberalism and personhood.Endeavour (a pseudonym) is a gap year organisation based in the UK that runs trips abroad to C…
This thesis examines the desire and efforts to 'do something' about what is variously called 'modern slavery' or 'human trafficking'. Neoabolitionist efforts to fight such phenomena are typically wedded to a simplistic and essentialist ontology, unaware of or rejecting their own…
This thesis investigates the work and operation of the Manchester-based poverty relief charity, the Wood Street Mission (WSM), between 1945 and 1990. While the history of post-war welfare has underlined the survival and growth of the voluntary sector at a national level, the dev…
Canon 702 of the 1983 Code of Canon Law, apparently, embodies two ambivalent norms. The first paragraph enunciates that a religious who is legitimately separated from his or her institute cannot make any claim for services rendered while he or she was a member of the institute. …
Ben Sira (ca. 245–175 B.C.E.) was a Jerusalem scribe, among whose functions was the instruction of young men. Near the end of his life Ben Sira collected his notes and reflections into a long Hebrew poem, that came to be known as the Wisdom of Ben Sira (the Apocryphal/Deuterocan…
Christian compassion demands that aid of some form be given to the truly poor in their time of need. A heart of compassion toward the needy is a basic theme of the NT. However, over the past one hundred years in America there has been a major shift away from understanding the ch…
This dissertation focuses on overlapping religious, legal, and spatial-political mechanisms through which the Italian state, the European Union (EU), and the Catholic Church manage undocumented migration and legal and cultural identities of citizens and non-citizens. It analyzes…
We examine how we can increase charitable giving and why it is hard for poor countries/individuals to escape poverty even with large aid in this dissertation. We suggest heterogeneous tax incentives as a policy tool to increase contributions. Furthermore, we present the existenc…
In the first half of the fourth century CE, church leaders, heads of state, monks, lay Christians and Jews all began to provide charitable care for the destitute poor and sick in the form of food, shelter, medical care, baths, burial and alms in hospitals, hospices and shelters …
This dissertation consists of three separate essays on various types of charitable activity. Each chapter examines incentives for charitable giving, including how charity religious affiliation impacts donations, how donors and charities respond to mandatory unrelated business in…
This dissertation charts the growing field of Muslim charitable organizations in the United States. It argues that over the last three decades, the 501(c)(3) faith-based relief and development organization became a dominant form of collective charity among American Muslims. As a…
Despite the historical evidence that Jane Austen was a devout Anglican, many readers have nonetheless contended that her Christian faith does not truly inform her fiction. Even those who do identify Christian themes in her works tend to argue that her early three novels, of whic…
In the mid-1250s, King Louis IX founded one of the first hospitals for the permanently disabled in western Europe which became known as the Quinze-Vingts because of the three hundred blind residents and sighted guides that he intended it to house. This foundation occurred in Par…
This dissertation examines the transformation of contemporary Islamic charitable practices in Egypt. It uses charity as a prism through which to examine the spaces of interaction between social, political, cultural and economic processes in Egypt. Based on one year of fieldwork,…