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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Marie Nathalie LeBlanc (Full Professor, Département de sociologie, Université du québec à Montréal) , Louis Audet Gosselin , Steven WattsPublisher: Pluto Press Imprint: Pluto Press Dimensions: Width: 13.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.50cm Weight: 0.428kg ISBN: 9780745336732ISBN 10: 0745336736 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 20 October 2016 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews'In this outstanding collection, familiar debates about the depoliticising effects of charity, the marketisation of civil society, and the ambiguities of religious networks are given fresh life' -- Jonathan Benthall, Honorary Resarch Fellow, Department of Anthropology, UCL, author of Islamic Charities and Islamic Humanism in Troubled Times (Manchester University Press, 2016) In this outstanding collection, familiar debates about the depoliticizing effects of charity, the marketization of civil society, and the ambiguities of religious networks are given fresh life by scrupulous evidence from francophone west Africa unthinkable twenty years ago when a crude secularization model still dominated. Incidentally, some unfair stereotypes of Islamic charities are held up to the light. -- Jonathan Benthall, Honorary Resarch Fellow, Department of Anthropology, UCL, author of Islamic Charities and Islamic Humanism in Troubled Times (Manchester University Press, 2016) 'In this outstanding collection, familiar debates about the depoliticising effects of charity, the marketisation of civil society, and the ambiguities of religious networks are given fresh life' -- Jonathan Benthall, Honorary Resarch Fellow, Department of Anthropology, UCL, author of Islamic Charities and Islamic Humanism in Troubled Times (Manchester University Press, 2016) Author InformationMarie Nathalie LeBlanc is an anthropologist and professor in the Department of Sociology at Universite du Quebec a Montreal. Her publications deal with religion and social change in Cote d'Ivoire with a special focus on youth, women and Islam. Louis Audet Gosselin is a historian and a sociologist, based at Universite du Quebec a Montreal. His current work focuses on the NGO-isation of Christian missions. Steven Watt holds a PhD in history from the Universite du Quebec a Montreal and has extensive experience in the community sector. He lives in St John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, where he works as a freelance translator and editor. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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