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

ISBN 10 : 1845455762 ISBN 13 : 9781845455767

Editeur : Berghahn Books, 2009

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Carolin Leutloff-Grandits is currently a research associate at the Center for Southeastern European History at the University of Graz and a lecturer at the Institute of Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Vienna. She has conducted research in Croatia and Serbia and has published on forced migration, social security, confl ict and reconciliation.

Anja Peleikis is a researcher at the Institute of Social Anthropology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany where she co-leads the project "After the Survivors. Performing the Holocaust and the Jewish Past in the New Yad Vashem Museum and in the Jewish Museum, Berlin." She has conducted research in Lebanon, Lithuania and Berlin/Jerusalem and has published on transnational migration, roots tourism, collective memory and social security.

Tatjana Thelen is currently a senior lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Zurich (Switzerland) and directs the research project "Local state and social security in rural Hungary, Romania and Serbia" funded by the Volkswagen foundation in Halle/Saale (Germany). She has conducted research in Hungary, Romania and Germany and has published on social security, social networks and inequality.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Berghahn Books
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1845455762
• ISBN 13: 9781845455767
• Reliure: Belle reliure
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 248
• Éditeur: Leutloff-Grandits Carolin, Peleikis Anja, Thelen Tatjana
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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