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Religion, Social Welfare and Social Policy in the UK: Historical, Theoretical and Policy Perspectives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2012

Rana Jawad
Rana Jawad*
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Department of Social and Policy Studies, University of Bath E-mail: R.Jawad@bath.ac.uk
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Social science researchers in the UK now accept that religion has returned to public life (Spalek and Imtoual, 2008; Dinham and Lowndes, 2009), after what has been described by Gorski (2005) as a considerable period of ‘intellectual and political repression’ that began in the post-World War II era. This lasted until around the beginning of the 1980s when political events such as the 1979 Iranian revolution, the rise of the ‘moral majority’ in North America and the spread of religious political mobilisation across the world, forced social scientists to recalculate their predictions about the effective demise of religion which had been considered to be a direct consequence of processes of modernisation (Casanova, 1994; Gorski, 2005; Habermas, 2006).

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Religionwelfare stateswelfare regimespost-secularitysocial capitalmixed economy of welfare

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Themed Section on Social Policy and Religion in Contemporary Britain
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Social Policy and Society , Volume 11 , Issue 4 , October 2012 , pp. 553 - 564
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

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