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From Private to Religious Patriarchy: Gendered Consequences of Faith-Based Welfare Provision in Germany

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  • Hien, Josef

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Over one million people work for a faith-based welfare provider in Germany. Caritas and Diakonie, the largest faith-based providers in Germany enjoy prerogatives that do not exist in other countries. This particular group of faith-based organizations is exempt from federal labor law and discrimination clauses, which results in arbitrary, and in other cases, institutional, forms of discrimination against particular social groups in society. Research has focused on the institutional regulation of faith-based practice in Germany. Much less attention has been devoted to the faith component within faith-based welfare provision. This study traces the evolution of church doctrine and its impact on the care and employment practices of faith-based welfare providers in Germany from the 1950s to the present. It argues that the conservative ideology of these welfare providers amplifies the negative effects of gendered occupational regimes.

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  • Hien, Josef, 2017. "From Private to Religious Patriarchy: Gendered Consequences of Faith-Based Welfare Provision in Germany," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 10(3), pages 515-542.
    • Handle: RePEc:zbw:espost:176603
    DOI: 10.1017/S1755048317000086
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    1. Josef Hien, 2020. "Cultural Political Economy: An Alternative Approach to Understanding the Divergences between Italian and German Positions during the Euro Crisis," Journal of Common Market Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 58(4), pages 1056-1073, July.
    2. Susan Crawford Sullivan, 2019. "Religion, Gender, and Social Welfare: Considerations Regarding Inclusion," Social Inclusion, Cogitatio Press, vol. 7(2), pages 44-47.

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