The Request and the Gift in Religious and Humanitarian Endeavors

Book Overview

1. Introduction: Asking in Time2. The Power of the Gift: Killing and Healing in Northwest Zambia3. Seeking the Wounds of the Gift: Recipient Agency in Catholic Charity and Kiganda Patronage4. When God Is a Moral Accountant: Requests and Dilemmas of Accountability in U.S. Medical Relief in Madagascar
5. How Asking and Giving Beget Distrust in Christian Child Sponsorship
6. Funding Meaning on Jewish Service Trips to Post-Katrina New Orleans7. Universal Dignity: Fundraising, Zakat, and Spiritual Exchange

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319853511
• ISBN13: 9783319853512
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 183 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"