Abstract
Faith-based organizations have begun to be analyzed from the point of view of the efficiency and effectiveness of services provided with the re-emergence of the religious element at the forefront of public discourse, and the recognition of the partial failure of policies for forced separation of social services from the religious element, as well as their secularization. This trend, started in the US, quickly became an important one in the UK and generally in Europe, where religious communities were reconsidered as partners of public social services (Beaumont & Cloke, 2012; Dinham & Lowndes, 2008). This change, in the sense of moving to a post-secular social assistance, comes in the wider context of post-secular society, at least in part recognizing the role of religious communities as a depository of traditions and a facilitator of community energies, a source of motivation for human resources and, in general, the promoter of the public good (Dinham, Furbey, & Lowndes, 2009).
Highlights
Faith-based organizations have begun to be analyzed from the point of view of the efficiency and effectiveness of services provided with the reemergence of the religious element at the forefront of public discourse, and the recognition of the partial failure of policies for forced separation of social services from the religious element, as well as their secularization
Both secular and religious organizations who provide social services use reference to religious symbols and terms in their social practice, even though they are rarely found in secular organizations. This allows Giedrė Reneve and Eugenijus Dunajevas (2014) to draw attention to the fact that secular social welfare organizations are only secular in terms of mission and goals, but the practices and the way social assistants relate to the beneficiaries are dependent on the inner values to which they adhere, as in many cases the values are of a spiritual, Christian nature. This post-secular understanding of the particularities of social assistance provided by Christian organizations allows the construction of working hypotheses that in a post-secular society, professionalization of charity occurs through the development of faith-based organizations, as a sequel and completion of philanthropic activities, that do not disappear, of professional social assistance services, based on the humanist vocation of social assistance and on a series of particular values of Christian nature, which are customized in order to be in line with the general ones of social assistance
We have included in the operational definition of the Faith-based organizations (FBOs) both the organizations established within the Church, as well as the social services provided directly by parishes, bishops or deaconesses
Summary
Faith-based organizations have begun to be analyzed from the point of view of the efficiency and effectiveness of services provided with the reemergence of the religious element at the forefront of public discourse, and the recognition of the partial failure of policies for forced separation of social services from the religious element, as well as their secularization. Religious organizations can receive public funding in various forms, without having to diminish the religious freedom of the recipients of assistance funded by this program (section 104, subsection b) Before this law was issued, a faith-based organization from the United States of America had to remove all religious symbols in the room where the service was offered; to give up any religious ceremony (such as prayers before meals); to accept all customers - even those who opposed suppliers' beliefs; the way the staff was hired had to reflect society as a whole and not the spirit and belief system of the organization, comply with the rules of the government contract, and separately include an internal income code (section 501, subsection c, point 3); had to be a nonprofit organization, a position that subjected faith-based organizations to public control and the same laws and regulations that applied to secular non-profit organizations. These conditions were enforced in order to ensure the separation of the
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