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Charity in Islamic societies.
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ISBN: 9780521821643 9780521529129 0521821649 0521529123 Year: 2008 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge university press

Understanding philanthropy : its meaning and mission
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ISBN: 1281726451 9786611726454 0253000130 9780253000132 0253350492 9780253350497 Year: 2008 Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press,

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Philanthropy has existed in various forms in all cultures and civilizations throughout history, yet most people know little about it and its distinctive place in our lives. Why does philanthropy exist? Why do people so often turn to philanthropy when we want to make the world a better place? In essence, what is philanthropy? These fundamental questions are tackled in this engaging and original book. Written by one of the founding figures in the field of philanthropic studies, Robert L. Payton, and his former student sociologist Michael P. Moody, Understanding Philanthropy presents a new way


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Poor relief and welfare in Germany from the Reformation to World War I
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ISBN: 9780511511790 9780521506038 9780521188852 9780511429699 051142969X 0511511795 0521506034 0521188857 9780511427510 0511427514 1107189500 1281791229 9786611791223 0511429312 051142812X 0511428839 Year: 2008 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This account of poor relief, charity, and social welfare in Germany from the Reformation through World War I integrates historical narrative and theoretical analysis of such issues as social discipline, governmentality, gender, religion, and state-formation. It analyses the changing cultural frameworks through which the poor came to be considered as needy; the institutions, strategies, and practices devised to assist, integrate, and discipline these populations; and the political alchemy through which the needs of the individual were reconciled with those of the community. While the Bismarckian social insurance programs have long been regarded as the origin of the German welfare state, this book shows how preventive social welfare programs - the second pillar of the welfare state - evolved out of traditional poor relief, and it emphasises the role of progressive reformers and local, voluntary initiative in this process and the impact of competing reform discourses on both the social domain and the public sphere.

The culture of giving : informal support and gift-exchange in early modern England
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ISBN: 9780521867238 0521867231 9780511720956 9780521174138 0521174139 0511720955 Year: 2008 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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An innovative study of gift-giving, informal support and charity in England between the late sixteenth and early eighteenth centuries. Ilana Krausman Ben-Amos examines the adaptation and transformation of varied forms of informal help, challenging long-held views and assumptions about the decline of voluntary giving and personal obligations in the transition from medieval to modern times. Merging historical research with insights drawn from theories of gift-giving, the book analyses practices of informal support within varied social networks, associations and groups over the entire period. It argues that the processes entailed in the Reformation, state formation and the implementation of the poor laws, as well as market and urban expansion, acted as powerful catalysts for many forms of informal help. Within certain boundaries, the early modern era witnessed the diversification, increase and invigoration, rather than the demise, of gift-giving and informal support.

Islam, civil society and social work : Muslim voluntary welfare associations in Jordan between patronage and empowerment = Islam, maatschappelijk middenveld en sociale zorg Gezaghebbende teksten, rituele praktijken en sociale identiteiten : Particuliere Islamitische welzijnsorganisaties in Jordanië tussen bevoogding en ontvoogding, met een samenvatting in het Nederlands
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ISBN: 9053569952 904850189X 9789048501892 9789053569955 Year: 2008 Publisher: Leiden : ISIM : Amsterdam University Press,

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The thesis analyses the role of Muslim voluntary welfare associations in Jordan from the perspective of their religious discourse and the related social activities, to assess whether they contribute to empowerment or reinforce dependency

The power of the stranger : structures and dynamics in social intervention - a theoretical framework.
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ISBN: 9780754670629 0754670627 9781315554051 9781317019466 9781317019473 Year: 2008 Publisher: Aldershot Ashgate

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The decline of the welfare state in Western Europe has left social care and everyday help in the hands of strangers. Utilizing twenty-five years of research, this book presents a new theoretical framework for social intervention, making a case for recognition of the significance of strangers when improving social intervention.


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Une histoire économique de l'hôpital, XIXe-XXe siècles : une analyse rétrospective du développement hospitalier
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ISBN: 9782905882769 9782905882875 290588276X 2905882875 Year: 2008 Publisher: Paris Comité d'histoire de la sécurité sociale

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