Religion and Charity - The Social Life of Goodness in Chinese Societies

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

List of contents

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.

About the author

Robert Weller is Professor of Anthropology and Research Associate at the Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs at Boston University.C. Julia Huang is Professor of Anthropology at National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.Keping Wu is Associate Professor of Anthropology in Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong.Lizhu Fan is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Globalization and Religious Studies program at Fudan University, Shanghai.

Summary

Religion and Charity shows how ideas about goodness change over time, and how those changes shape both religion and philanthropy. It will appeal to scholars and students interested in moralities, in faith-based organizations, and in Chinese societies.

Product details

• Authors: Lizhu Fan, Lizhu (Fudan University Fan, C. Julia Huang, C. Julia (National Tsing Hua University Huang, Julia Huang, Huang C. Julia, Robert Weller, Robert (Boston University) Weller, Robert (Boston University) Huang Weller, Robert P. Weller, Robert P. (Boston University) Weller, Robert P. (Boston University) Huang Weller, Weller Robert P., Keping Wu
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9781108418676
• ISBN: 978-1-108-41867-6
• No. of pages: 246
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); China, Malaysia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Religion: general, Social and cultural anthropology, Charities, Voluntary Services & Philanthropy, Charities, voluntary services and philanthropy