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Social security in religious networks : anthropological perspectives on new risks and ambivalences / edited by Carolin Leutloff-Grandits, Anja Peleikis and Tatjana Thelen.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social service--Religious aspects.
- Social service.
- Social security--Religious aspects.
- Social security.
- Religion and social problems.
- Religion--Economic aspects.
- Religion.
- Social networks.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (246 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- During the last decades The world has been facing tremendous political transformations and new risks: epidemics such as HIV/Aids have had destabilizing effect on the caretaking role of kin; in post-socialist countries political reforms have made unemployment a new source of insecurity. Furthermore, the state's withdrawal from providing social security is taking place throughout the world. One response to these developments has been increased migration, which poses further challenges to kinship-based social support systems. This innovative volume focuses on the ambiguous role of religious netwo
- Contents:
- Title page-Social Security in Religious Networks; Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1-Social Security in Religious Networks; Part I-Respnding to New Risks and Crisis; Chapter 2-When AIDS Becomes Part of the (Christian) Family; Chapter 3-'Fight against Hunger'; Chapter 4-Social Secuity, Life Courses and Religious Norms; Chapter 5-Longing for Security; Part II-Ambivalences of Religious Gifting; Chapter 6-Questioning Social Security in the Study of Religion in Africa; Chapter 7-Nuns, Fundraising and Volunteering; Chapter 8-'Church Shopping' in Malawi; Part III-Transnational Networking
- Chapter 9-The (Re-) Making of Translocal Networks through Social Security PracticesChapter 10-Women's Congregations as Transnational Social Security Networks; Chapter 11-Negotiating Needs and Obligations in Haitain Transnational Religious and Family Networks; Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612627842
- 9781282627840
- 1282627848
- 9781845459253
- 1845459253
- OCLC:
- 645100488
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