| Description |
1 online resource (x, 273 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file |
| Series |
School for Advanced Research advanced seminar series
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School for Advanced Research advanced seminar series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Wohlfahrt, ... |
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Religion and state -- Case studies.
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Religion and state. |
| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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| Subject |
Church charities -- Government policy -- Case studies.
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Church charities -- Government policy. |
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Faith-based human services -- Government policy -- Case studies.
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Faith-based human services. |
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Government policy. |
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Church charities. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Advocacy. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Case studies.
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| Added Author |
James, Erica Caple, 1966- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Governing gifts. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2019 9780826360335 (DLC) 2018050971 |
| ISBN |
9780826360342 (electronic book) |
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0826360343 (electronic book) |
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9780826360335 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0826360335 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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