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[Review of] Raymond T. Smith, ed. Kinship Ideology and Practice in Latin America
Kinship Ideology and Practice in Latin America is a collection of papers resulting from two conferences sponsored by the Joint Committee on Latin American Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council. The conferences brought together historians, sociologists and anthropologists who were charged with infusing sophisticated social theory into research on the family in Latin America
The publicāprivate pension mix in OECD countries
This article surveys the relationship between public and private pension provision in the countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. OECD. Population ageing has led many OECD countries to undertake a wide range of pension reforms. The overall effect of these reforms has in many cases been to reduce public pension promises, often signficantly. This, in turn, has increased the role of private pensions, which have expanded significantly in a number of countries. The article discusses the extent to which a number of countries will need to further increase private provision in order to guarantee adequate future retirement incomes.pension; retirement
Migration in Context: A Systematic Historical Approach to the Study of Breakdown Before Urbanization
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Friendship and Gift in 2 Corinthians 8ā9: Social Relations and Conventions in the Jerusalem Collection
Whiteford, Ruth A. āFriendship and Gift in 2 Corinthians 8ā9: Social Relations and Conventions in the Jerusalem Collection.ā Ph.D. diss., Concordia Seminary, 2018. 197 pp.
The collection in 2 Corinthians 8ā9 not only presents the opportunity for a transfer of economic resources, but also signifies a particular kind of social relationship between the Christians in Corinth and Jerusalem. While the Corinthians interpreted prospective transactions through the lens of patronage and therefore as an opportunity to gain status, Paulās sustained use of the ancient Greco-Roman friendship topos in his instructions reveals his conviction that all members of the į¼ĪŗĪŗĪ»Ī·ĻĪÆĪ± are equal, ideal friends on the basis of Godās gifts of ĻĪ¬ĻĪ¹Ļ and Ī“Ī¹ĪŗĪ±Ī¹ĪæĻĻĪ½Ī·. An assessment of status and its role in the different social relationships in the Hellenistic world, especially in Corinth, and an examination of Hellenistic friendship first set the foundation for a comprehensive examination of Paulās adaptation and use of the topos throughout 2 Cor 8ā9. This dissertation then concludes with an evaluation of how friendship provides an organizing framework for individual and corporate Christian flourishing under the gospel
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