Brief entries cover people, events, and concepts in America's diverse religious history.

Product Description: Given the increased pressures and higher demand on social-service organizations, faith-based providers must find ways to increase their effectiveness while maintaining their religious distinctiveness. Serving Those in Need provides practical answers for those engaged in the delivery of human and social services...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "The cross-cultural understandings this book provides can do much to help us determine the distinctive shape and form American religious philanthropy might take in the future." —Christian Century"The provocative information challenges the assumptions that philanthropy is a primarily Western or Christian tradition, and it clarifies the need for additional study...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)