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There is no single understanding as to what is meant by the term “faith-based organizations” which range from those which have a very local focus to large international networks with operations in many countries run by hundreds of thousands of staff and volunteers (Davis 2009). Whether religious organizations who receive government funding can be considered faith-based providers of care is questioned by some (Manuel and Glatzer 2019a). In addition to service organizations with professional staff and their own premises, more informal services are often based around places of worship, often without paid staff as an expression of their faith (Jawad 2012). While it is often argued that faith-based social services pertain particularly to religious organizations established to provide professional health and welfare services (Crisp 2014; Leis-Peters 2019), the distinction between formal and...
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Crisp, B.R. (2019). Faith-Based Social Services. In: Gu, D., Dupre, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69892-2_293-1
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