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the religious roots of modern poverty policy: catholic, lutheran, and reformed protestant traditions compared

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 September 2005

sigrun kahl
Affiliation:
max planck institute for the study of societies [[email protected]]
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Abstract

this paper shows that religion is a basic principle that underlies modern poverty policy. however, it has played out in very different ways in societies according to the relative predominance of catholic, lutheran, and calvinist heritages. though religion is but one explanation for why we deal with the poor as we do today, systematically accounting for denominational differences in poor relief traditions can help to answer a series of otherwise perplexing cross-national differences in poverty policy and enrich existing explanations of the welfare state.

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Research Article
Copyright
2005 archives européennes de sociology

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