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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Publié dans:Journal of contemporary religion
Auteurs: Feener, R. Michael (Auteur) ; Wu, Keping (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Carfax Publ. 2020
Dans: Journal of contemporary religion
Année: 2020, Volume: 35, Numéro: 1, Pages: 1-12
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B Asie / Don / Religion / Bienfaisance
RelBib Classification:AG Vie religieuse
KBM Asie
NCC Éthique sociale
Sujets non-standardisés:B Ethics
B Humanitarianism
B Religion
B Philanthropy
B Charity
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Résumé: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
Contient:Enthalten in: Journal of contemporary religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/13537903.2020.1695789