Concept Of Charity Research Articles

Does being religious or not matter? A qualitative investigation of community fundraising events

PurposeIn the extant literature, the concepts of charity and philanthropy have been differentiated based on the belief that charity stems from religious motivations and philanthropy is often secular in origin. Accordingly, this paper aims to investigate whether there is a distinction between managerial practices regarding the given concepts as emphasized in the conceptual discussions.Design/methodology/approachTo see the managerial practices, the authors determined bazaars, community fundraising events organized by nonprofit organizations (NPOs), as the research field. Then, this study followed the general systematic of qualitative research. Accordingly, the authors conducted 44 interviews with experienced bazaar organizers from 10 NPOs in total. Furthermore, four days of participant observation with field notes were made in each bazaar, which lasted from 7 to 10 days. This study also used archival data as a secondary data source and then analyzed all data with a content analysis technique.FindingsThis study found that the field practices mainly do not support the distinction drawn over the conceptual discussions. Both concepts are nouns describing the act of giving and helping the needy. They are actively performed based on different motives (religion-based and secular).Originality/valueThe relevant distinction is limited to the conceptual discussions and has not been supported by the findings obtained from the field. Also, most of the studies on helping were carried out in the Western context. Studies conducted outside these cultures are quite limited. The value of the current study lies in the fact that it was conducted in a cultural context different from the Western cultures and paves the pathway for future research.

The Order of Charity

This paper defends partiality as an inherent, essential part of ethical decision-making. First, the concept of charity as a kind of universal benevolence is spelled out, drawing on key ideas from classical religious thinking. I then argue that any justification of partiality must appeal to the good first, rather than rights. There follows a justification of partiality via an argument from the idea of control over the good. The next section seeks to harmonize partialistic preference with universal charity, explaining the concept of love of neighbour. There follows an outline of the key principles required for setting out an order of charity based on different kinds of special relationship. While not all of this theistically driven approach to the order of charity translates easily into secular moral thought, enough does to suggest that the view defended is at the least worthy of consideration and not to be dismissed lightly. At best, it has much in it that is commendable to secular common sense.

Global Income Inequality, Trickle-Down Economics, and Charity in Islamic Economics

Islam promotes charity both at an individual as well as at the community/society level. Charity has been almost a moral issue rather than an economic one though it affects the society in terms of economics. Mainstream economics has ignored the application of charity model and how it can result in reducing economic disparities. Unfortunately, charity has been ignored by researchers in the context of it being an economic entity. In 2015, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) pinpointed the persisting issue of global income inequality and gave thumbs down to the populist approach of “trickle-down economics.” This study aims to theoretically examine how the concept of charity addresses the issue of global income inequality and denies trickle-down economics. The evidence suggest that countries can minimize income inequality by mobilizing the concept of charity. The concept of charity can result in a huge amount of transfers from the upper 10% to the lower 10% of the income bracket.

A Charity of Mutuality and Hospitality: L'Arche's Witness to Catholic Theology

Through the writings of Jean Vanier, this paper encourages Catholic theologians to examine critically their theological sources and their own rhetoric for the context of developmental disabilities. Specifically, this thought experiment is an invitation for the Catholic academy to consider how its theologies of charity can assist the church to reflect on its pastoral ministry to people with developmental disabilities. Some Catholic discourse is built on an assumed one-directional concept of charity that emphasizes the agency and gifts of the giver over the receiver. Such a one-sided model of hospitality tends to emphasize the giver as the person without developmental disabilities, whereas the person with disabilities is described as the receiver of hospitality; their own gifts and agency thereby are either unacknowledged or downplayed. This paper argues, instead, that Catholic theologies of charity, particularly regarding developmental disabilities, should be built on a mutuality that affirms each person's agency to be both a giver and a receiver of charity.

State Concept of Social Management and Its Implementation in the Second Half of the 19th – Early 20th Century (On the Materials of Saratov Province)

Introduction. The paper deals with the conception of state social management in Russia after the reform of the system of local self-government in the second half of the 19th century and the practical activities of charitable organizations at the provincial and district levels. Methods. The research is based on the social legislation of the period under study, the works of Russian social policy researchers of the 19th – early 20th centuries, materials of statistical collections, periodicals. Analysis. The concept of charity and philanthropy, being developed during the period under study, involved the transformation of public-private philanthropy into public charity. Its main actors are the provincial and city authorities, which solve social problems in conjunction with private charitable institutions and are responsible for the state of social problems. The state reserved coordination and control functions. Within the framework of this concept, specific guidelines for charitable work were developed, including: its distribution to all demographic and social groups in need, a wide range of types of social assistance, and even distribution of charitable institutions throughout the country. However, in practice, innovation touched mainly metropolitan and provincial cities. Territorial and city medical, educational, social and rehabilitation institutions that had emerged in provinces, expanded the possibilities of providing assistance to the most vulnerable segments of the population. However, their distribution was still not even, rural settlements lost significantly. In uyezds, charities were few and could not help all socially disadvantaged groups of society. Results. The article shows that in the period under study, the concept of public philanthropy was not fully implemented.

Linguomental category of relevance and the technology of its study in the organization of scientific and educational activities

The legitimacy of identifying linguomental categories as a set of concepts and their verbalizing signs (linguistic units), which are characterized by homogeneity based on the commonality of a certain feature, fixing the results of human cognitive activity, has been proven. The identification of the linguomental category of relevance is substantiated, accumulating concepts (mental signs) that are socially significant at a particular historical stage, which are represented by linguistic units that form an active vocabulary of native speakers. The definition of actualema – a mental sign that objectifies the category of relevance is formulated, its features are characterized, including chronological determinism, sociocultural marking, semantic versatility, dynamism. The composition of the actual vocabulary of the modern Russian language is considered. It includes: lexical and semantic neologisms of the last decades, external borrowings, internal borrowing, updated vocabulary, nominally reoriented vocabulary. On the example of the study of the actual concept of charity and the linguistic units verbalizing it, the effectiveness of the linguo-conceptual analysis of the actualeme is shown, which revealed an obvious connection between actual concepts, language and the realities of the outside world, which is relevant both for the scientific sphere and for educational activities.

ZIARAH KUBUR, NILAI DIDAKTIS DAN REKONSTRUKSI TEORI PENDIDIKAN HUMANISTIK

As a form of da’wah, the grave pilgrimage has didactic function. Some didactic values contained in the pilgrimage of the grave are the exemplary to the charismatic figures, the transformation of remembering death as a spirit of the good deed, the building of social capital, the medium of gratitude, and of order and obedience. One of the challenges faced in Indonesian education is the rampant violence done by students and parents to teachers. This problem can not be solved only through the application of the concept of humanistic education. Therefore, the author offers the concept of humanistic religious education. This concept contains the use of some didactic values of the grave pilgrimage to complement the weaknesses of the concept of humanistic education. The use of didactic value is motivated by the reason that the grave pilgrimage is the religious practice that is easily accessible to the public from all social classes, except for those who reject it. Some of the companion values of the concept of humanistic education are the sacralization of the function of the teacher, the transformation of remembering death for charity and commitment to order and obedience. The sacralization of teachers is necessary to awaken parents and students that violence to teachers can lead to quality for perpetrators of violence. The concept of charity should be maintained in education to encourage the awareness of parents and students to not only need to respect the teacher during the learning process, but also to continue after the student completes his education. Commitment to obeying the order is necessary so that the parents and the student do not resort to violence to the teacher when the teacher carries out his disciplinary duties.

Charity and Justice

This exploratory study examines how a group of evangelical Christian women are seeking to define and live out the concepts of charity and justice in the contexts of their work with marginalized populations in British Columbia. The authors identify several themes that emerged in conversation with participants. These themes include the complex relationship between justice and charity, the effects of charity’s “social architecture”, and the relationship between justice/charity and gender.

Concepts of Charity: The Habsburg Empire and the South Moravian Example, 1750–1800

The article deals with the concept of charity (almsgiving, philanthropy) in the context of the changing religious and social situation in the Habsburg Empire between 1750 and 1800. The intellectual discussions, the administrative reforms and the testamentary practices of charity (charitable bequests) are followed in order to delineate the relationship between discourse and social practice. Although paradoxes can be observed, there was a clear common point for all three areas: the differentiation of the poor according to a new definition of “needs” and a tendency towards “practical” (and obligatory) charity. This shift from the post-Tridentine Catholic concept was accompanied – mainly in towns – by a significant transformation of the social space and structure.

WOMEN'S PATRONAGE IN EDUCATION OF UKRAINE (THE 19TH – THE BEGINNING OF THE 20TH CENTURY)

The concept of charity and philanthropy are explained. The attention is focused on the needs of modern education in support of state and non-state actors, in particular the «third» non-profit sector. In this regard, the article reveals the experience of women’s patronage in the 19th – the beginning of the 20th century – princess Varvara Repnin, Countess Elizabeth Skoropadskiy-Miloradovich, activist of Education, teacher Christine Alchevsk, landowner Catherine Skarzhynskoyi. It is shown that their patronage activities were prospective in nature and directed at achieving public interest goals (grounds of schools, gymnasiums and guardianship them; the opening reading rooms and libraries; the funding of scientific societies; support of the publishing industry; the founding of museums and the like). It is indicated that the experience can be such as care about the fate and future of Ukraine for many contemporaries, and wealthy people.

Discriminação e abandono de recém-nascidos mestiços na América Portuguesa: Os exemplos de Mariana, Vila Rica e Recife

Resumo O financiamento da criação de recém-nascidos abandonados pelos pais nas ruas das localidades portuguesas foi regulamentado pelas Ordenações Manuelinas (1512) e frequentemente constituía um tema controverso porque era uma iniciativa onerosa, que recaía sobre os cofres municipais e, no limite, sobre a população local, por meio de impostos (fintas) lançados pelo termo. Quando passou a ser obrigação legal, uma vez posta em prática, os concelhos encarregavam-se de cuidar de todos os expostos da localidade. Este artigo analisa os casos de Mariana e Vila Rica, em Minas Gerais, e Recife, em Pernambuco, onde foi regulamentado o financiamento da criação dos enjeitados. Contudo, essa forma de caridade, típica das regiões católicas no Ocidente, passaria por inovações frente à presença de populações miscigenadas na América portuguesa. Nos três exemplos estudados, as autoridades propuseram restringir o público de auxiliados a partir de critérios étnicos, estabelecendo, assim, novas fronteiras das noções de caridade, pobreza e assistência.

PENDISTRIBUSIAN ZAKAT PRODUKTIF DALAM PERSPEKTIF ISLAM

The obligation on charity and explanation of the law has been emphasized since the days of Mecca,the strongest opinion in the second year Hijr. However, the occurrence of major changes in the world that followed the revolution of science, technology, political and economic structure, made the concept of wealth and poverty is changing dramatically in which legal paradigm is no longer sufficient to carry out the teachings of charity in society. Hence, it is needed the criticism and evaluation of understanding and perception of charity, both on theoretical concepts and operational concepts, as well as implementation and application models. This study discuss the criticism to rebuild the whole concept of charity, comprehensive and precise with a variety of related concepts, including the concept of property and ownership, economy and fairness in various dimensions.

French Catholic Spirituality and the Nineteenth-century Korean Church

The role played by French Catholic missionaries in overseas evangelization during the nineteenth century was considerable. Their significance was not limited to their numerical contribution—the French Church is viewed as subscribing to a rigorous spirituality characterized by contempt for the world. This spirituality is seen, in the case of the Catholic Church in Korea, as having created a ghetto mentality, which dominated the Church until the 1970s. However, the spirituality of the French Church was more nuanced and varied than this model suggests. The Counter-Reformation ensured that the salvation of the individual soul became paramount, while the French Revolution encouraged the French Church to rediscover its commitment to overseas missions. The spirituality passed to the Korean Church might assist its confessors and martyrs in enduring persecution, but it gave to the Church as a whole the concept of charity and the imperative to relieve the suffering of others.

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Este artigo procura analisar as mudanças ocorridas nas concepções sobre a caridade nos anos iniciais do século XX, no Brasil, especialmente com relação aos pobres camponeses deslocados pela seca, chamados de retirantes. As fontes são principalmente jornais, relatórios e depoimentos de contemporâneos, assim como partes diárias da Polícia da capital do Ceará. As posições da Igreja Católica e do Estado são confrontadas com movimentos dos próprios retirantes, que interpretam de diferentes maneiras as concepções sobre a caridade e o crime, exigindo, em resposta, transformações nas políticas de assistência aos pobres.

Towards Shared Social Responsibility: A Study of Consumers’ Willingness to Donate Micro-Insurances when Taking Out Their Own Insurance

In recent years, the concepts of charity and development aid have changed significantly. Present concepts combine direct money transfer with co-production, knowledge sharing and the development of products and services designed for the need of developing and transition economies. The concept of micro-financing is a financial service which has proven to allow for entrepreneurs in the respective countries to start up their businesses. A relatively new financial product for these countries is micro-insurance. This article deals with the question whether consumers in the Netherlands are willing to donate micro-insurances and which factors influence this willingness to contribute to the non-profit micro-insurance approach of an insurance company. The data were collected with questionnaires among a sample of the Dutch population (N = 504). The data have been processed in a one-way between-groups ANOVA, a paired sample t test and an ordinal regression analysis. The results show that approximately half of the Dutch consumers are willing to pay an additional amount on their insurance premium for the donation of micro-insurances. The amount of the insurance premium did, however, not affect the willingness to donate (WTD). If consumers could choose the beneficiary less people are willing to donate, yet those people are willing to donate more money. In conclusion, there is readiness among consumers to contribute to micro-insurance via an insurance company that assists in setting up micro-insurance projects. This indicates a possible role for companies to act as an intermediary between philanthropic acts and consumers.

Charity in a Technological Society: From Alms to Corporation

Over the past 2,000 years, the concept of charity has moved from the personal care of the poor mandated by religious conviction to a multibillion dollar business. The culture of technological efficiency helped create this transformation. The authors explore the origins of charity and show how technology has drastically altered its form and function.

Commercially driven social benefit: a structured approach to Aboriginal engagement

Most corporate approaches to engagement with Aboriginal Australians are determined by a tension between two poles: seeking access by minimal legal compliance or a form of enlightened charity known as corporate social responsibility which, in turn, is driven by a tension between the simple concept of charity and seeking a social licence to operate. Obviously companies require both legal access and a social licence to operate. The Santos model of Aboriginal engagement proposes community driven commerciality through a structured process that seeks to manage project risk in terms of cost, delay and legal action. Importantly, Aboriginal engagement at Santos is about development of sustainable relations with Aboriginal communities and to contribute to those communities to, in turn, becoming sustainable. Projects and legal compliance provide an opportunity for Aboriginal people and companies to sit at the table together. The development of the project to the operation phase allows the company and the community to plan for, and achieve sustainability in a mutually beneficial manner.

Charity, good deeds and the poor in Serbian epic poetry

The analysis of relation between the poor and the concept of charity in Serbian epic poetry is initiated as part of the research project "Ethnic and social stratification of the Balkans", which includes study of social margins and subcultures in oral literature. Charitable activities directed toward the poor are discussed as social models, but also as a complex way of social interaction between the elites and the poor, which left its mark on oral tradition and epic poetry. Care for the poor, almsgiving and charitable deeds were a religious obligation, and in the course of time, the repetitiveness and habitual character of poor relief became an important issue in structuring cultural patterns. Ethical, educative and humanistic potential of charity, and its being founded on cases witnessed in real life directly connect charity to the shaping of poetic narrative models. Epic models reflect and poeticize socio-cultural patterns and characters, which is represented both in medieval documents and in epic tradition, in similarity of their themes and formulas on the level of contents and structure. This resemblance has led to the conclusion that charitable giving, care for the poor and salvation of soul existed as specific patterns and intergeneric symbols, which were handed down in various oral and written forms.

Two concepts of charity and their relationship to social work practice

Abstract The Judeo‐Christian concept of charity is inherent in the American Social Welfare system. Two differing views of charity, one Jewish and the other Christian, must be defined and weighed if their respective contributions are to be properly understood. The dichotomy between these two concepts is explored and related to the development of social welfare institutions in the United States. The result is then related to the field of social work and the role that these concepts play in empowering clients.

Two Concepts of Charity and Their Relationship to Social Work Practice

Two Concepts of Charity and Their Relationship to Social Work Practice