Robert P. Weller, C. Julia Huang, Keping Wu

Religion and Charity

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Produktbeschreibung

This book challenges our assumptions about morality by explaining how industrialized philanthropy and universalized goodness came to dominate Chinese religious engagement.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 561g
• ISBN-13: 9781108418676
• ISBN-10: 1108418678
• Artikelnr.: 48325783

Autorenporträt

Robert Weller is Professor of Anthropology and Research Associate at the Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs at Boston University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Engaged religions and the social life of goodness
2. Legacies and discontinuities in China, Taiwan and Malaysia
3. Political merit-making: religious philanthropy and the state
4. A (Chinese) good person
5. Gifts, groups, and goodness
6. Innovating the good
7. Alternative goodness
8. Conclusion: the unlimited good in context.