| Description |
1 online resource (x, 273 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
School for Advanced Research advanced seminar series |
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School for Advanced Research advanced seminar series.
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| Contents |
Introduction : the varieties of religious governance / Erica Caple James -- A believing and benevolent nation : religious mobilization as infrastructural power in American political development / Elisabeth S. Clemens -- The end(s) of compassion? : Buddhist charity and the state in Taiwan / C. Julia Huang -- Subjecting the state to seeing : charity, security, and the dispossessed in Iran's Islamic republic / Arzoo Osanloo -- Prisons of charity : Christian exceptionality and decarceration in Ecuador's penal state / Chris Garces -- "We haven't risked our life for food and shelter" : Mediterranean migrations, contentious charity, and justice / Maurizio Albahari -- Hostile charity : Somali refugees and risk in a new security age / Catherine Besteman -- Policing philanthropy and criminalizing charity in the "war on terror" / Erica Caple James -- Prophets and profits : the Jordanian government's strategies for defining and containing risk in volatile times / Sarah A. Tobin -- Islamic charities, calculative regimes, and the promotion of entrepreneurial subjects in Egypt / Mona Atia -- Neoliberal faith : risk and the representation of death in Indonesia / Daromir Rudnyckyj -- Epilogue : faith-based charity and neomodern statecraft / Erica Caple James |
| Summary |
Ultimately the book aims to expand the parameters of what has typically been a US-centric discussion of faith-based interventions as it explores the concepts of faith, charity, security, and governance within a global perspective |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Wohlfahrt, ... gnd |
| Subject |
Religion and state -- Case studies
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Church charities -- Government policy -- Case studies
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Faith-based human services -- Government policy -- Case studies
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Advocacy.
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Church charities -- Government policy
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Religion and state
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Sozialwissenschaften
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Säkularismus
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Moralisches Handeln
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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Case studies.
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Études de cas.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
James, Erica Caple, 1966- editor.
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| LC no. |
2019000790 |
| ISBN |
9780826360342 |
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0826360343 |
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