Social Security in Religious Networks Anthropological Perspectives on New Risks and Ambivalences
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
01.06.2009
Herausgeber
Leutloff-Grandits Carolin + weitereVerlag
Ingram Publishers ServicesSeitenzahl
248
Maße (L/B/H)
23.5/15.7/1.8 cm
Gewicht
472 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-84545-576-7
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.
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