Social Security in Religious Networks : Anthropological Perspectives on New Risks and Ambivalences.

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During the last decades the world has been facing tremendous political transformations and new risks: epidemics such as HIV/Aids have had a destabilizing effect on the caretaking role of kin; in post-socialist countries political reforms have made unemployment a new source of insecurity. Furthermore...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Leutloff-Grandits, Carolin
Otros Autores: Peleikis, Anja, Thelen, Tatjana
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, Inc., 2009.
Temas:
Social service > Religious aspects.
Social security > Religious aspects.
Religion and social problems.
Religion > Economic aspects.
Social networks.
Service social > Aspect religieux.
Religion et problèmes sociaux.
Religion > Aspect économique.
Réseaux sociaux.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Philanthropy & Charity.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Title page; Social Security in Religious Networks; Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1. Social Security in Religious Networks; Part I. Responding 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 Practices; Chapter 10. Women's Congregations as Transnational Social Security Networks; Chapter 11. Negotiating Needs and Obligations in Haitain [i.e. Haitian] Transnational Religious and Family Networks; Contributors; Index.

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