Adrian H. Hearn

Cuba: Religion, Social Capital, and Development

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: August 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 154mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 337g
• ISBN-13: 9780822341963
• ISBN-10: 0822341964
• Artikelnr.: 23823024

Autorenporträt

Adrian H. Hearn, an anthropologist, is an ARC Future Fellow at the University of Sydney.

Inhaltsangabe

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