Description
Product ID: | 9780826360335 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Series: | School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series |
Title: | Governing Gifts |
Subtitle: | Faith, Charity, and the Security State |
Authors: | Author: Erica Caple James |
Page Count: | 272 |
Subjects: | Social and cultural anthropology, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Charities, voluntary services and philanthropy, Charities, voluntary services & philanthropy |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Investigates the intersections between faith-based charity and secular statecraft. The contributors trace the connections among piety, philanthropy, policy, and policing. They seek to understand how faith and organized religious charity can be mobilized - at times on behalf of the state - to govern populations and their practices. |
Imprint Name: | University of New Mexico Press |
Publisher Name: | University of New Mexico Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2019-04-30 |