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Berghahn Books Social Security in Religious Networks Anthropological Perspectives on New Risks and Ambivalences 2009 Edition by Carolin Leutloff-grandits, Anja Peleikis, Tatjana Thelen
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 :- AcknowledgementsChapter 1. Social Security in religious networks: An introductionTatjana Thelen, Carolin Leutloff-Grandits and Anja PeleikisChapter 2. When AIDS becomes part of the (Christian) family: Dynamics between kinship and religious networks in UgandaCatrine ChristiansenChapter 3. 'Fight against hunger': Ambiguities of a charity campaign in post-war CroatiaCarolin Leutloff-GranditsChapter 4. Social Security, life courses and religious norms: Ambivalent layers of support in an eastern German Protestant networkTatjana ThelenChapter 5. Longing for security: Qigong and Christian groups in the People's Republic of ChinaKristin KupferChapter 6. Questioning Social Security in the study of religion in Africa: The ambiguous meaning of the gift in African Pentecostalism and IslamMirjam de Bruijn and Rijk van DijkChapter 7. Nuns, fundraising and volunteering: The gifting of care in Czech services for the elderly and infirmRosie ReadChapter 8. 'Church shopping' in Malawi: Acquiring multiple resources in urban Christian networksBarbara RohreggerChapter 9. The (re-)making of translocal networks through Social Security practices: The case of German and Lithuanian Lutherans in the Curonian SpitAnja PeleikisChapter 10. Women's congregations as transnational Social Security networksGertrud HuwelmeierChapter 11. Negotiating needs and obligations in Haitian transnational religious and family networksHeike DrotbohmNotes on contributorsIndex