Book Description
This book challenges our assumptions about morality by explaining how industrialized philanthropy and universalized goodness came to dominate Chinese religious engagement.
Author : Robert P. Weller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 39,99 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1108418678
This book challenges our assumptions about morality by explaining how industrialized philanthropy and universalized goodness came to dominate Chinese religious engagement.
Author : Barry W. Bussey
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 39,34 MB
Release : 2020-02-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 1785272675
'The Status of Religion and the Public Benefit in Charity Law' is an apologetic for maintaining the presumption of public benefit for the charitable category ‘advancement of religion’ in democratic countries within the English common law tradition. In response to growing academic and political pressure to reform charity law – including recurring calls to remove tax exemptions granted to religious charities – the scholars in this volume analyse the implications of legislative and legal developments in Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. In the process, they also confront more fundamental, sociological or philosophical questions on the very nature and role of religion in a secular society that would deny any space for religious communities outside their houses of worship. In other words, this book is concerned with the place of religion – and religious institutions – in contemporary society. It represents a series of concerns about the proper role of the state in relation to the differing beliefs of citizens – some of which will quite rightly manifest in actions to benefit the wider society. This debate, then, naturally engages with broader issues related to secularism, civic engagement and liberal democratic freedoms.
Author : Miriam Frenkel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 12,8 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Charity
ISBN : 3110209462
This book deals with various manifestations of charity or giving in the contexts of the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim societies in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages. Monotheistic charity and giving display many common features. These underlying similarities reflect a commonly shared view about God and his relations to mankind and what humans owe to God and expect from him. Nevertheless, the fact that the emphasis is placed on similarities does not mean that the uniqueness of the concepts of charity and giving in the three monotheistic religions is denied. The contributors of the book deal with such heterogeneous topics like the language of social justice in early Christian homilies as well as charity and pious endowments in medieval Syria, Egypt and al-Andalus during the 11th-15th centuries. This wide range of approaches distinguish the book from other works on charity and giving in monotheistic religions.
Author : Marie Nathalie LeBlanc
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,15 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Africa, West
ISBN : 9780745336732
An innovative perspective on the relationship between religion, civil society and development through the prism of faith-based NGOs in West Africa
Author : Gary A. Anderson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 18,96 MB
Release : 2013-08-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0300181337
In this reappraisal of charity in the biblical tradition, Anderson argues that the poor constituted the privileged place where Jews and Christians met God. He shows how charity affirms the goodness of the created order; the world was created through charity and therefore rewards it.
Author : Independent Sector (Firm)
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 20,50 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Author : Sir Charles Stewart Loch
Publisher :
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 41,11 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Robert Wuthnow
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 25,43 MB
Release : 1990-08-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
A Publication of INDEPENDENT SECTOR Examines the patterns of charitable activity among members of several major faiths and traces the historical and theological roots of giving traditions.
Author : The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Publisher : The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 29,47 MB
Release : 1997
Category :
ISBN : 1465101276
A Study Guide and a Teacher’s Manual Gospel Principles was written both as a personal study guide and as a teacher’s manual. As you study it, seeking the Spirit of the Lord, you can grow in your understanding and testimony of God the Father, Jesus Christand His Atonement, and the Restoration of the gospel. You can find answers to life’s questions, gain an assurance of your purpose and self-worth, and face personal and family challenges with faith.
Author : Robert D. Putnam
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 10,69 MB
Release : 2012-02-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1416566732
Draws on three national surveys on religion, as well as research conducted by congregations across the United States, to examine the profound impact it has had on American life and how religious attitudes have changed in recent decades.