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...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of contemporary religion
VerfasserInnen: Feener, R. Michael (VerfasserIn) ; Wu, Keping (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Carfax Publ. 2020
In: Journal of contemporary religion
Jahr: 2020, Band: 35, Heft: 1, Seiten: 1-12
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Asien / Gabe / Religion / Wohltätigkeit
RelBib Classification:AG Religiöses Leben; materielle Religion
KBM Asien
NCC Sozialethik
weitere Schlagwörter:B Ethics
B Humanitarianism
B Religion
B Philanthropy
B Charity
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Zusammenfassung: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.
ISSN:1469-9419
Enthält:Enthalten in: Journal of contemporary religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/13537903.2020.1695789