03607nam 2200673 a 450 991079136650332120170815145102.01-282-62784-897866126278421-84545-925-310.1515/9781845459253(CKB)2560000000012070(EBL)544286(OCoLC)645100488(SSID)ssj0000442542(PQKBManifestationID)12158227(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000442542(PQKBWorkID)10445679(PQKB)11677188(MiAaPQ)EBC544286(DE-B1597)637030(DE-B1597)9781845459253(EXLCZ)99256000000001207020081230d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSocial security in religious networks[electronic resource] anthropological perspectives on new risks and ambivalences /edited by Carolin Leutloff-Grandits, Anja Peleikis and Tatjana ThelenNew York Berghahn Books20091 online resource (246 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-84545-576-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 NetworkingChapter 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; IndexDuring 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 netwoSocial serviceReligious aspectsSocial securityReligious aspectsReligion and social problemsReligionEconomic aspectsSocial networksSocial serviceReligious aspects.Social securityReligious aspects.Religion and social problems.ReligionEconomic aspects.Social networks.361.75Leutloff-Grandits Carolin1099689Peleikis Anja1515394Thelen Tatjana1482124MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910791366503321Social security in religious networks3751079UNINA