Faith and Social Capital After the Debt Crisis

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Faith Beyond Social Capital

   • Adam Dinham

   Pages 1-13

3. Relationships in Ordinary

   • Adam Dinham

   Pages 14-32

4. Faiths, Public Policy and the Rise of Social Capital

   • Adam Dinham

   Pages 33-66

5. Capital, Social Capital and Religious Capital

   • Adam Dinham

   Pages 67-89

6. Capitalism–Fetishism?

   • Adam Dinham

   Pages 90-106

7. Magnifying the Market?

   • Adam Dinham

   Pages 107-129

8. Faith in Markets?

   • Adam Dinham

   Pages 130-159

9. Prophets or Profits?

   • Adam Dinham

   Pages 160-174

10. An Alternative Discourse of Faith

    • Adam Dinham

    Pages 175-191

11. Back Matter

    Pages 192-204

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This book explores what becomes of faiths when seen as social capital. In the grip of the current debt crisis, where the social and capital seem increasingly unbalanced, this book examines whether faiths can help rebalance society through drawing communities together.

• capital
• capitalism
• Policy
• social capital

'Not only is this book a wonderful introduction to what faith-based social action contributes to the UK today, it also puts forward a striking and significant argument. Dinham suggests that the notion of 'social capital', fashionable with policy-makers and faith groups alike, has been so hollowed out that it fails to make sense of faith's distinctive contributions to society - good and bad. Faith has many dimensions, not least reverence for what is good, true and Godly. To judge it in terms of the 'capital' it can generate is to subject it to a market logic which turns it into a mere instrument of social policy and economic progress'. - Linda Woodhead, Professor of the Sociology of Religion, Lancaster University and Director of the AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Programme, UK

'a stimulating read' - Roger McCormick, LSE Review of Books

• University of London, UK

  Adam Dinham

ADAM DINHAM Reader in Religion and Society at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. He is also policy advisor to the Faith Based Regeneration Network and Director of the Faiths and Civil Society Network of the Association of Commonwealth Universities, UK. His previous publications include Faiths, Public Policy and Civil Society, Faith in the Public Realm (with R. Furbey and V. Lowndes) and Faith as Social Capital (with R. Furbey, R. Farnell and D. Finneron).

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