This study examines how rabbinic texts from the land of Israel explain and respond to poverty. Through this investigation, I also analyze images of the poor in this literature, asking whether the rabbis considered poor persons to be full participants in communal religious life. …
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In the first half of the fourth century CE, church leaders, heads of state, monks, lay Christians and Jews all began to provide charitable care for the destitute poor and sick in the form of food, shelter, medical care, baths, burial and alms in hospitals, hospices and shelters …
Ben Sira (ca. 245–175 B.C.E.) was a Jerusalem scribe, among whose functions was the instruction of young men. Near the end of his life Ben Sira collected his notes and reflections into a long Hebrew poem, that came to be known as the Wisdom of Ben Sira (the Apocryphal/Deuterocan…
Christian compassion demands that aid of some form be given to the truly poor in their time of need. A heart of compassion toward the needy is a basic theme of the NT. However, over the past one hundred years in America there has been a major shift away from understanding the ch…
This dissertation focuses on overlapping religious, legal, and spatial-political mechanisms through which the Italian state, the European Union (EU), and the Catholic Church manage undocumented migration and legal and cultural identities of citizens and non-citizens. It analyzes…
By two cases, Amity Foundation and Shanghai YMCA, the paper described the situation of the contemporary China's Christianity-based social service organizations, analyzed the social capital they have generated, and explored their influence on the development of civil society in C…
In the mid-1250s, King Louis IX founded one of the first hospitals for the permanently disabled in western Europe which became known as the Quinze-Vingts because of the three hundred blind residents and sighted guides that he intended it to house. This foundation occurred in Par…
This dissertation examines the transformation of contemporary Islamic charitable practices in Egypt. It uses charity as a prism through which to examine the spaces of interaction between social, political, cultural and economic processes in Egypt. Based on one year of fieldwork,…
Arguing that our current response to world poverty is not only insufficient but ethically indefensible, philosopher Peter Singer offers a seven-point plan that mixes personal philanthropy (figuring how much to give and how best to give it), local activism (spreading the word in …
Arguing that our current response to world poverty is not only insufficient but ethically indefensible, philosopher Peter Singer offers a seven-point plan that mixes personal philanthropy (figuring how much to give and how best to give it), local activism (spreading the word in …