Configuring the connections

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures and Tables......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
1 The WREP Project: Genesis, Structure and Scope......Page 14
2 Welfare in Western Europe: Existing Regimes and Patterns of Change......Page 38
3 The Church of Sweden: A Church for All, Especially the Most Vulnerable......Page 52
4 Sacred Welfare Agents in Secular Welfare Space: The Church of Norway in Drammen......Page 70
5 The Church as a Place of Encounter: Communality and the Good Life in Finland......Page 90
6 The German Dilemma: Protestant Agents of Welfare in Reutlingen......Page 108
7 The ‘In-Between’ Church: Church and Welfare in Darlington......Page 126
8 Church–State Relations in France in the Field of Welfare: A Hidden Complementarity......Page 142
9 What Kind of Church? What Kind of Welfare? Conflicting Views in the Italian Case......Page 160
10 The Disgraceful and the Divine in Greek Welfare: The Cases of Thiva and Livadeia......Page 180
11 A Preliminary Conclusion: Gathering the Threads and Moving On......Page 196
Appendix 1 The WREP Team......Page 212
Appendix 2 The Benefits and Problems of Linguistic Diversity in a Comparative European Project......Page 214
Appendix 3 The Principal Publications of the From State Church to Free Folk Church Project......Page 222
Bibliography......Page 226
Index......Page 250