Visions of charity: volunteer workers and moral community

Introduction: Studying visions of charity

pt. 1: Working arrangements of charitable action

Performing personalist hospitality: works of mercy and social justice at loaves & fishes

Administering salvationism: evangelism and alcoholics anonymous at the Salvation Army

pt. 2: Constructing moral selves

Moral selving within personalist hospitality: commitment, gratitude, and witnessing

Moral selving within salvationism: sobriety, work, and redemption

pt. 3: Moral visions of the welfare state

The politics of charity: constructing moral selves in religion and conflict.