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Governing gifts : faith, charity, and the security state / edited by Erica Caple James.
Penn Museum Library BL65.S8 G68 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- School for Advanced Research advanced seminar series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religion and state--Case studies.
- Religion and state.
- Church charities--Government policy--Case studies.
- Church charities.
- Faith-based human services--Government policy--Case studies.
- Faith-based human services.
- Church charities--Government policy.
- Government policy.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 273 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2019.
- Contents:
- Introduction : the varieties of religious governance / Erica Caple James
- A believing and benevolent nation : religious mobilization as infrastructural power in American political development / Elisabeth S. Clemens
- The end(s) of compassion? : Buddhist charity and the state in Taiwan / C. Julia Huang
- Subjecting the state to seeing : charity, security, and the dispossessed in Iran's Islamic republic / Arzoo Osanloo
- Prisons of charity : Christian exceptionality and decarceration in Ecuador's penal state / Chris Garces
- "We haven't risked our life for food and shelter" : Mediterranean migrations, contentious charity, and justice / Maurizio Albahari
- Hostile charity : Somali refugees and risk in a new security age / Catherine Besteman
- Policing philanthropy and criminalizing charity in the "war on terror" / Erica Caple James
- Prophets and profits : the Jordanian government's strategies for defining and containing risk in volatile times / Sarah A. Tobin
- Islamic charities, calculative regimes, and the promotion of entrepreneurial subjects in Egypt / Mona Atia
- Neoliberal faith : risk and the representation of death in Indonesia / Daromir Rudnyckyj
- Epilogue : faith-based charity and neomodern statecraft / Erica Caple James.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-255) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Governing gifts
- ISBN:
- 9780826360335
- 0826360335
- OCLC:
- 1057623359
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