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

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

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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 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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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.)
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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

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