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PHILANTHROPY IN THE WORLD'S TRADITIONS
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| By: |
Warren F. Ilchman (Editor), Stanley N. Katz (Editor), Edward L. Queen (Editor) |
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Book |
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£90.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
025333392X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780253333926 |
| Publisher: |
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 June, 1998 |
| Series: |
Philanthropic and Nonprofit Studies |
| Pages: |
400 |
| Description: |
Studies philanthropy in Buddhist, Islamic, Hindu, Jewish, and Native American religious traditions and in cultures from Latin America, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa through India, South Asia, China, and Japan. This book explains philanthropy's relative importance within the culture and the culture's predominant religious traditions. |
| Synopsis: |
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 CenturyThe 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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US |
| Imprint: |
Indiana University Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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