Policy Press Faith-Based Organisations and Exclusion in European Cities

At a time of heightened neoliberal globalisation and crisis, welfare state retrenchment and de-secularisation of society - amid uniquely European controversies over immigration, integration and religious-based radicalism - this timely book explores the role played by faith-based organisations (FBOs), which are growing in importance in the provision of social services in the European context. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, the contributions to the volume present original research examples from a pan-European perspective to assess the role of FBOs in combating poverty and various expressions of exclusion and social distress in cities across Europe. This significant and highly topical volume should become a vital reference source for the burgeoning number of studies that are likely to follow, and will make essential reading for students and academics in social policy, sociology, geography, politics, urban studies and theology/ religious studies.