Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents iii
3. List of tables, figures and maps v
4. Acknowledgements vi
5. Notes on contributors vii
6. Introduction 1
7. Thinking methodologically: approaches to research and practice
8. Between contextuality and comparability: a dilemma in qualitative comparative case studies 25
9. Using case studies in religion, values and welfare research 37
10. Social cohesion: from research to practice 53
11. Thinking regionally: key case studies in welfare and religion in Europe
12. The WaVE project as a record of religious and social transformations in northern Europe 77
13. The intersections of state, family and church in Italy and Greece 107
14. Religion, welfare and gender: the post-communist experience 135
15. Gendered and minority perspectives
16. Understanding religious minority communities as civil society actors 163
17. Striving to live the good life: the tension between self-fulfilment and family obligations for women in northern England 185
18. Religion as a resource or as a source of exclusion? The case of Muslim women’s shelters 207
19. The moral and gendered crisis of the Italian welfare system seen through the prism of migrant women’s reproductive health 235
20. Drawing the threads together
21. Welfare and values in Europe: insights drawn from a comparative cross-country analysis 261
22. Afterword 291
23. Appendix: the WaVE team 299
24. Index 303