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Economics of Faith addresses the multiple ways that leaders of the European Reformation sought to inspire new attitudes toward poverty and wealth, to reform the institutions of poor relief, and to create new organizations for aiding religious refugees. Guided by biblical ideals and values, religious reformers became some of the major contributors in the effort to address poverty, one of the most vexing social problem in early modern Europe. By examining the connections between religion, politics, and community, it highlights the crucial role that religion had in the promotion of social responsibility and the development of social welfare systems.…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
Economics of Faith addresses the multiple ways that leaders of the European Reformation sought to inspire new attitudes toward poverty and wealth, to reform the institutions of poor relief, and to create new organizations for aiding religious refugees. Guided by biblical ideals and values, religious reformers became some of the major contributors in the effort to address poverty, one of the most vexing social problem in early modern Europe. By examining the connections between religion, politics, and community, it highlights the crucial role that religion had in the promotion of social responsibility and the development of social welfare systems.
Autorenporträt
Esther Chung-Kim is Chair and Professor of the Religious Studies Department at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California. She currently serves as the President-Elect of the American Society of Church History and was previously appointed as the Associate Director of the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies. She teaches courses on the History of World Christianity, including the European Reformations, Poverty and Religion, and Christianity and Politics in Asia. Her publications focus on religious conflict, history of biblical interpretation, and charity and poor relief.