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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2017

Josef Hien
Josef Hien*
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University of Milan
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Address correspondence and reprint requests to: Josef Hien, Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), Department of Democracy and Democratization, Reichpietschufer 50, 10117 Berlin, Germany. E-mail: [email protected].
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Abstract

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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Politics and Religion , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , September 2017 , pp. 515 - 542
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Copyright © Religion and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association 2017 

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Footnotes

I want to thank three anonymous reviewers for great comments and critique. Elin Hellquist for never getting tired of giving stimulating input on the many different versions of this manuscript. Karin Gottschall and the social policy Colloquium at the University of Bremen for inviting me to present this paper at an early stage, Margarita Estevez-Abe for comments during another presentation at the Collegio Carlo Alberto in Turin. Sascha Kneip at the WZB and Anton Hemerijck at the Collegio for pushing this forward with their good thoughts.

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