Social security in religious networks : anthropological perspectives on new risks and ambivalences /: anthropological perspectives on new risks and ambivalences. (2009)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Carolin Leutloff-Grandits, Anja Peleikis and Tatjana Thelen.
• Other Names: Leutloff-Grandits, Carolin; Peleikis, Anja; Thelen, Tatjana
• Contents: Acknowledgements Chapter 1. Social Security in religious networks: An introduction; Tatjana Thelen, Carolin Leutloff-Grandits and Anja Peleikis Chapter 2. When AIDS becomes part of the (Christian) family: Dynamics between kinship and religious networks in Uganda; Catrine Christiansen Chapter 3. 'Fight against hunger': Ambiguities of a charity campaign in post-war Croatia; Carolin Leutloff-Grandits Chapter 4. Social Security, life courses and religious norms: Ambivalent layers of support in an eastern German Protestant network; Tatjana Thelen Chapter 5. Longing for security: Qigong and Christian groups in the People's Republic of China; Kristin Kupfer Chapter 6. Questioning Social Security in the study of religion in Africa: The ambiguous meaning of the gift in African Pentecostalism and Islam; Mirjam de Bruijn and Rijk van Dijk Chapter 7. Nuns, fundraising and volunteering: The gifting of care in Czech services for the elderly and infirm; Rosie Read Chapter 8. 'Church shopping' in Malawi: Acquiring multiple resources in urban Christian networks; Barbara Rohregger Chapter 9. The (re-)making of translocal networks through Social Security practices: The case of German and Lithuanian Lutherans in the Curonian Spit; Anja Peleikis Chapter 10. Women's congregations as transnational Social Security networks; Gertrud Hüwelmeier Chapter 11. Negotiating needs and obligations in Haitian transnational religious and family networks; Heike Drotbohm Notes on contributors; Index
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource (248 pages)
• Subjects: 361.75; Social service -- Religious aspects; Social security -- Religious aspects; Religion and social problems; Religion -- Economic aspects; Social networks
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781845459253; 1845459253
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