Speaking of trust: religion and mutual aid in Southwest Kenya

Zidaru, Teodor ORCID: 0000-0003-4258-561X (2025) Speaking of trust: religion and mutual aid in Southwest Kenya. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.. ISBN 9781350301115 (In Press)

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Abstract

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. Since independence in 1963, Kenya has seen the steady growth of mutual aid arrangements; a practice which creatively combines market logic with redistributive politics and older forms of reciprocity and solidarity. As a means to providing welfare and pursuing joint economic activity, mutual aid has flourished - despite the failures of neoliberal statecraft, and deepening asymmetries of power and wealth between and within different ethnic groups – and has been largely built up using a language of religious faith. Observing that many aspects of Christian and indigenous religious life play an integral part in shaping how Kenyans save, lend, distribute, fundraise, and entrust money and value in collective arrangements, Speaking of Trust illuminates and analyses the complex and innovative ways in which Kenyans are reimagining and renegotiating the terms of interdependence across social divides.

Item Type:	Book
Additional Information:	© 2025 The Author(s)
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BL Religion H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory H Social Sciences
Date Deposited:	09 Sep 2025 11:30
Last Modified:	11 Sep 2025 03:33
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/129443

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