Introduction. Warren Ilchman, Stanley Katz, and Edward L. Queen,
II
Part One: Non-Literate/Aboriginal Traditions
1. Reciprocity and Assistance in Precolonial Africa
Steven Feierman
2. A Comparative Study in Native American Philanthropy
John A. Grim
Part Two: Historical/Textual Roots
3. Contextualizing Philanthropy in South Asia: A Textual Analysis
of Sanskrit Sources
Leona Anderson
4. Generosity and Service in Theravada Buddhism
Ananda W.P. Guruge and G.D. Bond
5. The Mahayana Buddhist Foundation for Philanthropic Practice
Leslie S. Kawamura
Part Three: Philanthropy in Context
6. Philanthropy, the Law, and Public Policy in the Islamic World
before the Modern Era
Said Arjomand
7. Reflections on Chinese Philanthropy Based on the Case of Famine
Relief in Shan-yin County,
Shao-hsing, 1640-1642
Joanna F. Handlin Smith
8. A View of Philanthropy in Japan: Confucian Ethics and
Education
Mary Evelyn Tucker
Part Four: Philanthropy and Social Change
9. The Origins of Modern Jewish Philanthropy
Derek J. Penslar
10. Mount Holyoke Missionaries and Non-Western Women: The
Motivations and Consequences of Nineteenth Century American
Missionary Philanthropy
Amanda Porterfield
11. Orthodox Christianity, the Nation-State, and Philanthropy:
Focus on the Serbian Orthodox Church
Miroslav Ruzica
Part Five: New Shoots, Old Roots
12. Hindu Philanthropy and Civil Society
Mark Juergensmeyer and Darrin M. McMahon
13. Religious Authority, Reform, and Philanthropy in the
Contemporary Muslim World
Gregory C. Kozlowski
14. From Repression to Revival: Philanthropy in Twentieth-Century
Russia
Adele Lindenmeyr
15. State Power and the Philanthropic Impulse in China Today
Vivienne B. Shue
16. Civil Society and Philanthropy in Latin America: From Religious
Charity to the Search for Citizenship Andrés A. Thompson and Leilah
Landim
Contributors
Index
The only comprehensive survey of philanthropy outside of the Western tradition.
WARREN F. ILCHMAN is Director of the Indiana University Center
on Philanthropy. STANLEY N. KATZ is senior fellow in the Woodrow
Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton
University and past president of the American Council of Learned
Societies. EDWARD L. QUEEN II is director of the Religion and
Philanthropy Project at the Indiana University Center on
Philanthropy.
Contributors (a very preliminary set of bios) Leona Anderson is
professor of religious studies at the University of Regina.
Said Arjomand is professor of sociology at SUNY Stony Brook.
G.D. Bond is professor of religion at Northwestern University.
Steven Feierman is professor of history and sociology of science
and of history at the University of Pennsylvania.
John A. Grim is professor of religious studies at Bucknell
University.
Ananda W.P. Guruge is senior special advisor to UNESCO's Culture of
Peace Program.
Warren F. Ilchman is executive director of the Indiana University
Center on Philanthropy and professor of political science and
philanthropic studies at Indiana University-Purdue University
Indianapolis. He is author or editor of fourteen books, the most
recent of which is entitled Capacity for Change? The Nonprofit
World in the Age of Devolution.
Mark Juergensmeyer is professor of sociology at University of
California at Santa Barbara.
Stanley N. Katz is senior fellow in the Woodrow Wilson School of
Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and past
president of the American Council of Learned Societies.
Leslie S. Kawamura is professor of religious studies at the
University of Calgary.
Gregory C. Kozlowski is professor of history at DePaul
University.
Leilah Landim is a researcher at the Institute for the Study of
Religion (ISER).
Adele Lindenmeyr is professor of history and Russian studies at
Villanova University.
Darrin M. McMahon is professor of history at Yale University.
Derek J. Penslar is professor of history, Jewish studies, middle
east studies, and philanthropy at Indiana University.
Amanda Porterfield is director of women's studies and professor of
religious studies at Indiana University-Purdue University
Indianapolis.
Edward L. Queen, II is director of the Religion and Philanthropy
project at the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University-Purdue
University Indianapolis.
Miroslav Ruzica is professor of Social Work and philanthropic
studies at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.
Vivienne B. Shue is professor of government at Cornell
University.
Andrés A. Thompson is program director at the W.K. Kellog
Foundation.
Mary Evelyn Tucker is professor of religious studies at Bucknell
University.
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