Contents

pp iii-iv

List of tables, figures and maps

pp v-v

Acknowledgements

pp vi-vi

Notes on contributors

pp vii-xii

one - Introduction

pp 1-22

Part One - Thinking methodologically: approaches to research and practice

pp 23-24

Two - Between contextuality and comparability: a dilemma in qualitative comparative case studies

pp 25-36

Three - Using case studies in religion, values and welfare research

pp 37-52

Four - Social cohesion: from research to practice

pp 53-74

Part Two - Thinking regionally: key case studies in welfare and religion in Europe

pp 75-76

Five - The WaVE project as a record of religious and social transformations in northern Europe

pp 77-106

Six - The intersections of state, family and church in Italy and Greece

pp 107-134

Seven - Religion, welfare and gender: the post-communist experience

pp 135-160

Part Three - Gendered and minority perspectives

pp 161-162

Eight - Understanding religious minority communities as civil society actors

pp 163-184

Nine - Striving to live the good life: the tension between self-fulfilment and family obligations for women in northern England

pp 185-206

Ten - Religion as a resource or as a source of exclusion? The case of Muslim women's shelters

pp 207-234

Eleven - The moral and gendered crisis of the Italian welfare system seen through the prism of migrant women’s reproductive health

pp 235-258

Part Four - Drawing the threads together

pp 259-260

Twelve - Welfare and values in Europe: insights drawn from a comparative cross-country analysis

pp 261-290

Thirteen - Afterword

pp 291-298

Appendix: the WaVE team

pp 299-302

Index

pp 303-308