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FAITH-BASED PROMISING PRACTICES:
INNOVATIVE FORMS OF COLLABORATIVE SOCIAL SERVICES
by
Peter William Spoto
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(RELIGION AND SOCIAL ETHICS)
December 2009
Copyright 2009 Peter William Spoto
Object Description
| Title | Faith-based promising practices: innovative forms of collaborative social services |
| Author | Spoto, Peter William |
| Author email | spoto@usc.edu; peter.spoto@yahoo.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Religion & Social Ethics |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2008-09-10 |
| Date submitted | 2009 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2009-11-18 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Miller, Donald E. |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Orr, John B. Miller, Jon |
| Abstract | The goal of this study is twofold: to create a broader, more inclusive notion of what faith-based social services entails, and to introduce a new set of categories that serve as the basis for an updated mapping of religious social service organizations in America. Utilizing qualitative methods, the study investigates three religious social service programs that reflect the following characteristics: the Holistic Christian Gospel, Progressive Mainline Protestantism, and the Embodied Gospel of Roman Catholicism. The central argument of this study is that newer salient categories for religious social service providers are a theoretical and methodological necessity in order to understand the role of faith in the delivery of these services. This study challenges existing assumptions and understandings of the “faith factor” and frames the “effectiveness” question in a new conceptual and methodological light. Recent attempts to formulate newer categories have not described how religious social service providers implement their faith in their respective programs. Current attempts to systematize program types limit their scope primarily to church-state questions. They do not answer how these organizations specifically engage the world equipped with their religious and spiritual commitments; thus, they lack real relevance to the sociopolitical and socio-cultural ethos present in this era of the “faith-based initiative.” My research addresses these problems by demonstrating that terms and labels such as “faith-saturated” and “faith-based” are misnomers. The programs under consideration in this study all demonstrate that they are “faith-imbued” and “faith-intensive” in how the leadership and staff members of these faith-based programs operationalize their faith commitments in the administration of these services. |
| Keyword | faith-based; social services; public-private partnerships; community and neighborhood partnerships; multi-sector collaboration; social justice; at-risk youth; refugee immigrants; ex-offenders; job training; job placement; job development; job creation; mentoring; religious social services; social ethics; Protestant social ethics; Catholic social teachings; Neo-Pentecostal community and economic development; neighborhood revitalization; economic revitalization; social entrepreneurship |
| Geographic subject (country) | USA |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m2745 |
| Rights | Spoto, Peter William |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Spoto-2409 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume56/etd-Spoto-2409.pdf |
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| Full text | FAITH-BASED PROMISING PRACTICES: INNOVATIVE FORMS OF COLLABORATIVE SOCIAL SERVICES by Peter William Spoto A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (RELIGION AND SOCIAL ETHICS) December 2009 Copyright 2009 Peter William Spoto |
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