Generating Generosity In Catholicism And Islam

Author : Carolyn M. Warner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108570135
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Generating Generosity in Catholicism and Islam written by Carolyn M. Warner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-10 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using an innovative methodological approach combining field experiments, case studies, and statistical analyzes, this book explores how the religious beliefs and institutions of Catholics and Muslims prompt them to be generous with their time and resources. Drawing upon research involving more than 1,000 Catholics and Muslims in France, Ireland, Italy, and Turkey, the authors examine Catholicism and Islam in majority and minority contexts, discerning the specific factors that lead adherents to help others and contribute to social welfare projects. Based on theories from political science, economics, religious studies and social psychology, this approach uncovers the causal connections between religious community dynamics, religious beliefs and institutions, and socio-political contexts in promoting or hindering the generosity of Muslims and Catholics. The study also provides insight into what different religious beliefs mean to Muslims and Catholics, and how they understand those concepts.

Author : Carolyn M. Warner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107135516
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Generating Generosity in Catholicism and Islam written by Carolyn M. Warner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-10 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using field experiments and case studies, this book investigates the institutions and beliefs within Catholicism and Islam that prompt generosity.

Author : Patricia Snell Herzog
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030265005
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Science of Generosity written by Patricia Snell Herzog and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-25 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book advances understanding of the manifestations, causes, and consequences of generosity. Synthesizing the findings of the 14 research projects conducted by the Science of Generosity Initiative and offering an appendix of methods for studying generosity, this comprehensive account integrates insights from disparate disciplines to facilitate a broader understanding of giving—ultimately creating a compendium of not only the latest research in the field of altruistic behaviors, but also a research roadmap for the future. As the author sequentially explores the manifestations, causes, and consequences of generosity, Patricia Snell Herzog here also offers analyses ranging from the micro- to macro-level to paint a full picture of the individual, interpersonal and familial, and collective (inter)actions involved in altruism and generosity. The author concludes with a call to stimulate further interdisciplinary generosity studies, describing the implications for emerging scholars and practitioners across sociology, economics, political science, religious studies, and beyond.

Author : Miriam Frenkel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110209462
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charity and Giving in Monotheistic Religions written by Miriam Frenkel and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2009 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with various manifestations of charity or giving in the contexts of the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim societies in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages. Monotheistic charity and giving display many common features. These underlying similarities reflect a commonly shared view about God and his relations to mankind and what humans owe to God and expect from him. Nevertheless, the fact that the emphasis is placed on similarities does not mean that the uniqueness of the concepts of charity and giving in the three monotheistic religions is denied. The contributors of the book deal with such heterogeneous topics like the language of social justice in early Christian homilies as well as charity and pious endowments in medieval Syria, Egypt and al-Andalus during the 11th-15th centuries. This wide range of approaches distinguish the book from other works on charity and giving in monotheistic religions.

Author : Hilaire Belloc
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1387773089
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Heresies written by Hilaire Belloc and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-04-26 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Great Heresies, Hilaire Belloc takes the reader on a fast and furious tour of European history seen through the lens of its chief religious conflicts - Arianism, 'Mohammedanism' (Islam), Albigensianism, the Reformation, and what he terms 'The Modern Phase.'

Author : Ramazan Kılınç
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108755585
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alien Citizens written by Ramazan Kılınç and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does international context influence state policies toward religious minorities? Using parliamentary proceedings, court decisions, newspaper archives, and interviews, this book is the first systematic study that employs international context in the study of state policies toward religion, and that compares Turkey and France with regard to religious minorities. Comparing Christians in Turkey and Muslims in France, this book argues that policy change toward minorities becomes possible when strong domestic actors find a suitable international context that can help them execute their policy agendas. The Turkish Islamists used the European Union to transform the Turkish politics that brought a reformist moment for Christians in the 2000s. The Far Right in France utilized the rise of Islamophobia in Europe to adopt restrictive policies toward Muslims. Ramazan Kılınç argues that the presence of an international context that can favor particular groups over others, shifts the domestic balance of power, and makes some policies more likely to be implemented than others.

Author : Mohammad Hassan Khalil
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108421547
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jihad, Radicalism, and the New Atheism written by Mohammad Hassan Khalil and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book compares the conflicting and consequential interpretations of jihad offered by mainstream Muslim scholars, violent Muslim radicals, and New Atheists.

Author : Haroon Moghul
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807020745
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Be a Muslim written by Haroon Moghul and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A searing portrait of Muslim life in the West, this “profound and intimate” memoir captures one man’s struggle to forge an American Muslim identity (Washington Post) Haroon Moghul was thrust into the spotlight after 9/11, becoming an undergraduate leader at New York University’s Islamic Center forced into appearances everywhere: on TV, before interfaith audiences, in print. Moghul was becoming a prominent voice for American Muslims even as he struggled with his relationship to Islam. In high school he was barely a believer and entirely convinced he was going to hell. He sometimes drank. He didn’t pray regularly. All he wanted was a girlfriend. But as he discovered, it wasn’t so easy to leave religion behind. To be true to himself, he needed to forge a unique American Muslim identity that reflected his beliefs and personality. How to Be a Muslim reveals a young man coping with the crushing pressure of a world that fears Muslims, struggling with his faith and searching for intellectual forebears, and suffering the onset of bipolar disorder. This is the story of the second-generation immigrant, of what it’s like to lose yourself between cultures and how to pick up the pieces.

Author : Carolyn M. Warner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400823684
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confessions of an Interest Group written by Carolyn M. Warner and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2000-03-27 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following World War II, the Catholic Church in Europe faced the challenge of establishing political influence with newly emerging democratic governments. The Church became, as Carolyn Warner pointedly argues, an interest group like any other, seeking to attain and solidify its influence by forming alliances with political parties. The author analyzes the Church's differing strategies in Italy, France, and Germany using microeconomic theories of the firm and historical institutionalism. She demonstrates how only a strategic perspective can explain the choice and longevity of the alliances in each case. In so doing, the author challenges earlier work that ignores the costs to interest groups and parties of sustaining or breaking their reciprocal links. Confessions of an Interest Group challenges the view of the Catholic Church as solely a moral force whose interests are seamlessly represented by the Christian Democratic parties. Blending theory, cultural narrative, and archival research, Warner demonstrates that the French Church's superficial and brief connection with a political party was directly related to its loss of political influence during the War. The Italian Church's power, on the other hand, remained stable through the War, so the Church and the Christian Democrats more easily found multiple grounds for long-term cooperation. The German Church chose yet another path, reluctantly aligning itself with a new Catholic-Protestant party. This book is an important work that expands the growing literature on the economics of religion, interest group behavior, and the politics of the Catholic Church.

Author : Eboo Patel
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807050822
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Acts of Faith written by Eboo Patel and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a new afterword Acts of Faith is a remarkable account of growing up Muslim in America and coming to believe in religious pluralism, from one of the most prominent faith leaders in the United States. Eboo Patel’s story is a hopeful and moving testament to the power and passion of young people—and of the world-changing potential of an interfaith youth movement.