Social Security in Religious Networks

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.

“The editors of this book give exceptional added value to its eleven essays.”  ·  JRAI“This volume offers a wide range of topics and methodological approaches…[and] gives an excellent insight into the manifold interconnectedness of religious networks in the (trans)national context.”  ·  Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale"[A] coherent set of theoretically interesting discussions based on sound empirical work … [to] contribute to some of the major issues of social anthropology."  ·  Keebet von Benda-Beckmann, Max-Planck-Institute, Halle"... a good range of ethnographic material and theoretical debate. The Introduction does a good job of binding the chapters together."  ·  Frances Pine, Goldsmiths College

• 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 HüwelmeierChapter 11. Negotiating needs and obligations in Haitian transnational religious and family networksHeike DrotbohmNotes on contributorsIndex