Cuba - Religion, Social Capital, and Development

Informationen zum Autor Adrian H. Hearn, an anthropologist, is an ARC Future Fellow at the University of Sydney. Klappentext Argues that grassroots cultural actors and religious organizations have come to play an important role in social development in Cuba since the early 1990s, and that this process occurred with the active support, and regulation of the state, despite the st Zusammenfassung When Cuba's centralized system for providing basic social services began to erode in the early 1990s! Christian and Afro-Cuban religious groups took on new social and political responsibilities. This book analysis of how the Cuban state and local religious groups collaborate on community-development projects. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Structure and Spirit 1 Chapter 1. Spirits in Motion: Folklore and Function 31 Chapter 2. State Decentraliation and the Collaborative Spirit 67 Chapter 3. Sustainable Sovereignty: International NGOs and Civil Society in Cuba 103 Chapter 4. Patriotic Spirits: Religious Welfare Programs and Politics of Syncretism 135 Conclusion: Development and Dialogue 181 Notes 191 References 195 Index 213

Product details

• Authors: Adrian H. Hearn, Hearn, Adrian H Hearn, Adrian H. Hearn
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.08.2008
• EAN: 9780822341802
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4180-2
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 241 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Kuba, Sozialwesen und soziale Dienste