Social Security in Religious Networks : : Anthropological Perspectives on New Risks and Ambivalences / / ed. by Carolin Leutloff-Grandits, Anja Peleikis, Tatjana Thelen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Bruijn, Mirjam De,; Christiansen, Catrine,; Dijk, Rijk Van,; Drotbohm, Heike,; Hüwelmeier, Gertrud,; Kupfer, Kristin,; Leutloff-Grandits, Carolin,; Peleikis, Anja,; Read, Rosie,; Rohregger, Barbara,; Thelen, Tatjana,
• HerausgeberIn: Leutloff-Grandits, Carolin,; Peleikis, Anja,; Thelen, Tatjana,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)

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 networks in social security and traces the interrelatedness of religious networks and state and family support systems. Particularly timely, it describes these challenges as well as social security arrangements in the context of globalization and migration. The wide range of case studies from various parts of the world that examine various religious groups offers an important comparative contribution to the understanding of religious networks as providers of social security.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Social Security in Religious Networks: An Introduction -- Part I: Responding to New Risks and Crisis -- 2. When AIDS Becomes Part of the (Christian) Family: Dynamics between Kinship and Religious Networks in Uganda -- 3. ‘Fight against Hunger’: Ambiguities of a Charity Campaign in Postwar Croatia -- 4. Social Security, Life Courses and Religious Norms: Ambivalent Layers of Support in an Eastern German Protestant Network -- 5. Longing for Security: Qigong and Christian Groups in the People’s Republic of China -- Part II: Ambivalences of Religious Gifting -- 6. Questioning Social Security in the Study of Religion in Africa: The Ambiguous Meaning of the Gift in African Pentecostalism and Islam -- 7. Nuns, Fundraising and Volunteering: The Gifting of Care in Czech Services for the Elderly and Infirm -- 8. ‘Church Shopping’ in Malawi: Acquiring Multiple Resources in Urban Christian Networks -- Part III: Transnational Networking -- 9. The (Re-)Making of Translocal Networks through Social Security Practices: The Case of German and Lithuanian Lutherans in the Curonian Spit -- 10. Women’s Congregations as Transnational Social Security Networks -- 11. Negotiating Needs and Obligations in Haitian Transnational Religious and Family Networks -- Notes on Contributors -- Index