Charity in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Traditions (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Lieberman, Julia R.; Rozbicki, Michal Jan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays by a team of international scholars addresses the topic of Charity through the lenses of the three Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The contributors look for common paradigms in the ways the three faiths address the needs of the poor and the needy in their respective societies, and reflect on the interrelatedness of such practices among the three religions. They ask how the three traditions deal with the distribution of wealth, in the recognition that not all members of a given society have equal access to it, and in the relationship of charity to the inheritance systems and family structures. They reveal systemic patterns that are similar--norms, virtue, theological validations, exclusionary rules, private responsibility to society--issues that have implications for intercultural and interfaith understanding. Conversely, the essays inquire how the three faiths differ in their understanding of poverty, wealth, and justifications for charity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498560863
• Artikelnr.: 48960670

Autorenporträt

Julia R. Lieberman is professor of Spanish and intercultural studies at Saint Louis University. Michal Jan Rozbicki is professor of history and director of the Center for Intercultural Studies at Saint Louis University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction, Julia R. Lieberman and Michal Jan Rozbicki
Part I: Charity: Some Theoretical Issues
Chapter 1: Is Charity a Two-Faceted Janus? "Othering" Gifts vs. Translating
Giving and the Intercultural Uses of Human Rights, Mario Ricca
Chapter 2: Whose Caritas? Which Receptivity? Roman Catholics in Dialogue
across Traditions, Gregory R. Beabout
Chapter 3: Interreligious and Intercultural Transfers of the Tradition of
Philanthropy, Thomas Adam
Chapter 4: Sadaqa as a Sign of Sincerity: Secular and Spiritual Aspects of
Charity in Islam, Fatih Harpci
Chapter 5: From Welfare to Rights in the Jewish Tradition, Melinda Jones
Part II: The Practice of Charity in Judaism, Christianity. and Islam
Chapter 6: New Practices of Sedaca: Charity in London's Spanish and
Portuguese Jewish Community during the Eighteenth Century, Julia R.
Lieberman
Chapter 7: From Charity to Philanthropy among the Jewish Elite:
Emancipation, Modernization, Ethnicity, and Nationalism, Haim Sperber and
Riki Galia
Chapter 8: Catholic Reform, the Council of Trent, and the Transformation of
Italian Charity, 1500-1800, Philip R. Gavitt
Chapter 9: The Perfect Storm: Social Services and Abuse in North American
Catholic Maternity Homes, Elizabeth Patricia Rigotti
Chapter 10: The Heart of a Heartless World: Relations of Power in
Faith-based Responses to the Iraqi and Syrian Refugee Crises, Tahir Zaman
Chapter 11: The Practice of Zakat in Northern Nigeria and the Building of
Social Relationships, Dauda Abubakar
Chapter 12: Jewish and Muslim Charity in the Ottoman Empire: The Fluidity
of Religious Boundaries, Yaron Ayalon