Speaking of Trust
Religion and Mutual Aid in Southwest Kenya
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2025
Zed Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-350-30111-5 (ISBN)
Zed Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-350-30111-5 (ISBN)
Explores how religion informs acts of trust in Kenyan mutual aid arrangements.
This open access book examines the often overlooked entanglements and affinities between emerging models of formal and informal finance and welfare with longer-running religious structures and concerns.
In Kenya, mutual aid has long mediated microcredit contracts and the social contract between citizens and the state. In effect, mutual aid has been organized in ways that contributed to mistrust in financial and state institutions as well as among families and neighbours. Nevertheless, diverse mutual aid arrangements have thrived and proliferated, not least because collaborating parties actively recognize the influence of invisible third parties such as God or Satan. The resulting forms of trust and mistrust range from the contractual to the mutual and everything in-between. Together, they highlight how speaking of trust in a language of religious faith sustains possibilities for contingency, creativity, and change alongside the reproduction of pre-existing inequalities and moral prejudices.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by UKRI.
This open access book examines the often overlooked entanglements and affinities between emerging models of formal and informal finance and welfare with longer-running religious structures and concerns.
In Kenya, mutual aid has long mediated microcredit contracts and the social contract between citizens and the state. In effect, mutual aid has been organized in ways that contributed to mistrust in financial and state institutions as well as among families and neighbours. Nevertheless, diverse mutual aid arrangements have thrived and proliferated, not least because collaborating parties actively recognize the influence of invisible third parties such as God or Satan. The resulting forms of trust and mistrust range from the contractual to the mutual and everything in-between. Together, they highlight how speaking of trust in a language of religious faith sustains possibilities for contingency, creativity, and change alongside the reproduction of pre-existing inequalities and moral prejudices.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by UKRI.
Teodor Zidaru is Associate Lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews. Previously he taught anthropology at King’s College London and the London School of Economics.
Note on Place and Language
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Introduction
Chapter 1: Competing for Sovereignty
Chapter 2: The Politics and Poetics of Transgression
Chapter 3: Containing the Anti-Help
Chapter 4: The Value of Prudence
Chapter 5: Patriarchy at Bay?
Chapter 6: Affective Finance
Chapter 7: Microfinance and Christianity
Postlude: A Brave New Africa?
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 22.08.2025 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 154 x 236 mm |
| Gewicht | 1040 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-30111-6 / 1350301116 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-30111-5 / 9781350301115 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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