The ethics of religious giving in Asia: introduction
The ethical evaluation of religious giving involves multiple metrics of theological references, everyday ethics, ritual correctness, and materialist self-interest. Understanding how these categories are constantly re-made and experienced in the lives of individuals and the broader history of religio...
| Published in: | Journal of contemporary religion |
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| Authors: | ; |
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
Carfax Publ.
2020
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| In: |
Journal of contemporary religion
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Asia
/ Gift
/ Religion
/ Charitable works
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion KBM Asia NCC Social ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Ethics
B Humanitarianism B Religion B Philanthropy B Charity |
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| Summary: | The ethical evaluation of religious giving involves multiple metrics of theological references, everyday ethics, ritual correctness, and materialist self-interest. Understanding how these categories are constantly re-made and experienced in the lives of individuals and the broader history of religious traditions is vital to understandings of the ethics of religious giving. The salience of this value pluralism' is particularly amplified in contemporary Asian contexts, where complex inter- and intra-religious dynamics, agendas of modernizing reform, state projects of nation building, economic development programs, and various forms of activist mobilization cut across intertwining vectors. It is our goal to describe the ongoing everyday decision-making processes of individuals in diverse contexts in order to contribute both empirically and theoretically to discussions of the ethics of religious giving. In this special issue, we present an interactionist perspective in which the category of the religious' is dynamically and mutually reconfigured in relation to other salient fields of charity, philanthropy, and humanitarianism. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-9419 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of contemporary religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/13537903.2020.1695789 |