The Request and the Gift in Religious and Humanitarian Endeavors
Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 2017 ed.
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
ISBN-10
3319853511
ISBN-13
9783319853512
Edition
Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 2017 ed.
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
CH
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 13th, 2018
Print length
183 Pages
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This collection revisits classical anthropological treatments of the gift by documenting how people may be valued both through the requests they make and through what they give.
This collection revisits classical anthropological treatments of the gift by documenting how people may be valued both through the requests they make and through what they give. Many humanitarian practitioners, the authors propose, regard giving to those in need as the epitome of moral action but are liable to view those people''s requests for charity as merely utilitarian. Yet in many religious discourses, prayers and requests for alms are highly valued as moral acts, obligatory for establishing relationships with the divine. Framing the moral qualities of asking and giving in conjunction with each other, the contributors explore the generation of trust and mistrust, the politics of charity and accountability, and tensions between universalism and particularism in religious philanthropy.
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