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<p> The book provides a thorough historical overview of the events that led up to the Bush administration's decision to promote faith-based social welfare. This thoughtful book is a useful addition to the growing literature on the subject and should be widely consulted. <br>

""Provides important insight into the manner in which federal support of faith-based poverty relief initiatives affect religious identity in the Golden Triangle Region of rural Mississippi.""--Journal of Church and State ""The book provides a thorough historical overview of the events that led up to the Bush administration's decision to promote faith-based social welfare. This thoughtful book is a useful addition to the growing literature on the subject and should be widely consulted.""--Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare ""Well-written and clearly organized.""--Journal of Social Services ""In depth profiles...with obvious strengths.""--Contemporary Sociology ""The findings raise serious concerns related to discriminatory practices around who will get served, and the qualification of those providing the services... Highly recommended."" --CHOICE ""The comparative case method stretched across a complex analytical framework sketches the terrain in broad, suggestive, analytical strokes. We benefit from the timeliness of Bartkowski and Regis's study."" --American Journal of Sociology ""Nothing short of exceptional...Charitable Choices is a very readable book that makes an evident contribution to contemporary discourse about welfare reform and its possibilities and pitfalls."" --Social Forces ""These stories reveal not only the profound commitment that clergy can have for their flock but how existing social structures can render the poor invisible. Charitable Choices is more useful as a description of an under-recognized aspect of American religious life than as an analysis of government welfare policy."" --Religious Studies Review

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John P. Bartkowski is Associate Professor of Sociology at Mississippi State University. He is the author of Remaking the Godly Marriage: Gender Negotiation in Evangelical Families. Helen Regis is Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Louisiana State University. Her work on New Orleans jazz funerals and second lines has appeared in American Ethnologist and Cultural Anthropology.

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