A comparative analysis of religious and service mandates in faith-based organisations in Canada and India

Since the 1990s, states have rolled back funding for social service provision. The conventional wisdom among researchers is that these cuts led to a groundswell of faith-based organisations seeking to respond to the gaps in social service provision left by the diminished capacity of the state. Around the same time, leading scholars asked a pertinent question about whether or not social service workers could be employed within faith-based organisations (FBO) and remain committed to a progressive academic discipline such as social work and indeed to the broader liberal democratic ethos of North American society (Cnaan & Boddie, 2001). About 15 years has passed and we have been given glimpses of the answer through important work by researchers who have responded to this question (e.g., Sager, 2011). TO BE CONT’D

Faculty Supervisor:

Lea Caragata

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Tata Institute for Social Sciences

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Sociology

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Education

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Wilfrid Laurier University

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