A Comparative Study of Social Services of Religious Groups - A case study of Non-profit organization

• Main Authors: CHANG, CHAO-YING, 張兆櫻
• Other Authors: YANG, CHANG-LIN
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2019
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/sn9u48

碩士 === 輔仁大學 === 社會企業碩士在職學位學程 === 107 === From the 18th century to the 1970s, humanitarian and religious charitable organizations in society have paid attention to relevant issues, but they are unable to respond to the needs of social change. They can only provide charity assistance. For the industrial society, the risk sharing of the labor population is even more Innate limitations. The provision of social services by religious organizations also seems to ease the economic and financial crisis on the surface of the country and avoid the inefficiency of the national bureaucracy. Religion has the function of calming people's hearts and purifying the society. In addition to the worship of God and the pursuit of personal spirituality, most religions also advocate persuading people to be good and encourage believers to actively participate in national social services. Among the religious beliefs in Taiwan, there are the largest number of believers in Taoism, Buddhism, Christianity and Catholicism. All religions have various social service programs, institutional charitable relief, cultural education, medical care or other related Welfare services, but there are considerable differences in the way we practice our faith. It is not difficult for various religious groups to establish a non-profit organization based on religion in Taiwan. However, it is not easy to maintain and develop forever. Sometimes it is not easy to maintain the organization with a passionate service. Organizations survive, but need to have strategies and ways to manage and operate, in order to enable the organization to provide services in a stable and long-term way. In order to better understand the status of social service projects initiated by religious groups, this study collects the research objects of the top four religious non-profit organizations in the statistics of the internal statistics of the Ministry of the Interior. (Taoism, Buddhism, Catholicism, and Christianity). Based on the above, the objectives of this study are expected to include： 1. Understand the motivation of religious groups to Input in social services in society. 2. Exploring the current status and effectiveness of social service projects invested by various religious groups in society. 3. Explore social service projects that religious groups are more suitable for development in the future.