Philanthropy in the world's traditions
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xv, 382 p. ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
Reciprocity and assistance in precolonial Africa / Steven Feierman -- A comparative study in native American philanthropy / John A. Grim -- Contextualizing philanthropy in South Asia: a textual analysis of Sanskrit Sources / Leona Anderson -- Generosity and service in theravada Buddhism / Ananda W.P. Guruge and G.D. Bond -- The Mahayana Buddhist foundation for philanthropic practices / Leslie S. Kawamura -- Philanthropy, the law, and public policy in the Islamic world before the modern era / Said Amir Arjomand -- Chinese philanthropy as seen through a case of famine relief in the 1640s / Joanna F. Handlin Smith -- A view of philanthropy in Japan: confucian ethics and education / Mary Evelyn Tucker -- The origins of modern Jewish philanthropy / Derek J. Penslar -- Mount Holyoke missionaries and non-western women? the motivations and consequences of nineteenth-century American missionary philanthropy / Amanda Porterfield -- Orthodox Christianity, the nation-state, and philanthropy: focus on the Serbian orthodox church / Miroslav Ruzica -- Hindu philanthropy and civil society / Mark Juergensmeyer and Darrin M. McMahon -- Religious authority, reform, and philanthropy in the contemporary Muslim world / Gregory C. Kozlowski -- From repression to revival: philanthropy in twentieth-century Russia / Adele Lindermeyr -- State power and the philanthropic impulse in China today / Vivienne Shue -- Civil society and philanthropy in Latin America: from religious charity to the search for citizenship / Andres A. Thompson and Leilah Landim
Includes bibliographical references and index
Reciprocity and assistance in precolonial Africa / Steven Feierman -- A comparative study in native American philanthropy / John A. Grim -- Contextualizing philanthropy in South Asia: a textual analysis of Sanskrit Sources / Leona Anderson -- Generosity and service in theravada Buddhism / Ananda W.P. Guruge and G.D. Bond -- The Mahayana Buddhist foundation for philanthropic practices / Leslie S. Kawamura -- Philanthropy, the law, and public policy in the Islamic world before the modern era / Said Amir Arjomand -- Chinese philanthropy as seen through a case of famine relief in the 1640s / Joanna F. Handlin Smith -- A view of philanthropy in Japan: confucian ethics and education / Mary Evelyn Tucker -- The origins of modern Jewish philanthropy / Derek J. Penslar -- Mount Holyoke missionaries and non-western women? the motivations and consequences of nineteenth-century American missionary philanthropy / Amanda Porterfield -- Orthodox Christianity, the nation-state, and philanthropy: focus on the Serbian orthodox church / Miroslav Ruzica -- Hindu philanthropy and civil society / Mark Juergensmeyer and Darrin M. McMahon -- Religious authority, reform, and philanthropy in the contemporary Muslim world / Gregory C. Kozlowski -- From repression to revival: philanthropy in twentieth-century Russia / Adele Lindermeyr -- State power and the philanthropic impulse in China today / Vivienne Shue -- Civil society and philanthropy in Latin America: from religious charity to the search for citizenship / Andres A. Thompson and Leilah Landim
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