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

Contents\nAcknowledgements\n1. Social Security in Religious Networks: An Introduction\nPart I: Responding to New Risks and Crisis\n2. When AIDS Becomes Part of the (Christian) Family: Dynamics between Kinship and Religious Networks in Uganda\n3. ‘Fight against Hunger’: Ambiguities of a Charity Campaign in Postwar Croatia\n4. Social Security, Life Courses and Religious Norms: Ambivalent Layers of Support in an Eastern German Protestant Network\n5. Longing for Security: Qigong and Christian Groups in the People’s Republic of China\nPart II: Ambivalences of Religious Gifting\n6. Questioning Social Security in the Study of Religion in Africa: The Ambiguous Meaning of the Gift in African Pentecostalism and Islam\n7. Nuns, Fundraising and Volunteering: The Gifting of Care in Czech Services for the Elderly and Infirm\n8. ‘Church Shopping’ in Malawi: Acquiring Multiple Resources in Urban Christian Networks\nPart III: Transnational Networking\n9. The (Re-)Making of Translocal Networks through Social Security Practices: The Case of German and Lithuanian Lutherans in the Curonian Spit\n10. Women’s Congregations as Transnational Social Security Networks\n11. Negotiating Needs and Obligations in Haitian Transnational Religious and Family Networks\nNotes on Contributors\nIndex