Helping Refugees: Parameters of Church-State Cooperation in the 21st Century in the USA
Abstract
The article on the base of the analyses of the author's field research materials, collected in Georgia, as well as the state and church documents and contemporary scholarly works on the subject, examines the development of the cooperation of the American state with the faith-based organizations in the social projects (including those in the sphere of education), addressed to refugees. It is shown how the balance between the two main principles: free exercise of religion and separation of church and state, makes this cooperation not only possible but also fruitful. Such cooperation, which significantly grew in the early 21st century, is not considered to be violation of the principle of separation of church and state unless it involves proper religious matters, while the social service of the churches is protected by the free exercise clause. The state greatly appreciates high motivation, emotional indifference and responsibility of the faith-based organizations doing social service among refugees, simultaneously it guarantees nonadmissibility of religious proselytism towards vulnerable groups of population.
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