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Philanthropy in the World’s Traditions

By Warren F. Ilchman , Stanley N. Katz , Edward L. Queen II

Book information

Publisher
Indiana University Press
Year
1998
ISBN
025333392X, 9780253333926
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
23 MB (23875439 bytes)
Series
Philanthropic and Nonprofit Studies
Pages
400\398
Time added
2016-04-22 07:28:29
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"The cross-cultural understandings this book provides can do much to help us determine the distinctive shape and form American religious philanthropy might take in the future." ―Christian Century"The provocative information challenges the assumptions that philanthropy is a primarily Western or Christian tradition, and it clarifies the need for additional study." ―ChoiceAn investigation of how cultures outside the Western tradition understand philanthropy and how people in these cultures attempt to realize "the good" through giving and serving. These essays study philanthropy in Buddhist, Islamic, Hindu, Jewish, and Native American religious traditions and in cultures from Latin America, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia.

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