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Author: Marie Nathalie LeBlanc (Full Professor, Département de sociologie, Université du québec à Montréal) ,
Louis Audet Gosselin ,
Steven Watts
Publisher: Pluto Press
Imprint: Pluto Press
Dimensions:
Width: 13.50cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 21.50cm
Weight: 0.428kg
ISBN: 9780745336732
ISBN 10: 0745336736
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 20 October 2016
Audience:
College/higher education
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
'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 Information
Marie 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.
