# Philanthropy in the World’s Traditions

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/books/philanthropy-worlds-traditions/
- Published: 1998-09-15T19:02:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**An investigation of how cultures outside the Western tradition understand philanthropy
and how people in these cultures attempt to realise “the good” through giving and
serving. **

These essays study philanthropy in Buddhist, Islamic, Hindu, Jewish, and Native 
American religious traditions and in cultures from Latin America, Eastern Europe,
the Middle East, Africa, and Asia.

## Reviews

“The cross-cultural understandings this book provides can do much to help us determine
the distinctive shape and form American religious philanthropy might take in the
future.”
_Christian Century_

“The provocative information challenges the assumptions that philanthropy is a primarily
Western or Christian tradition, and it clarifies the need for additional study.”

_Choice_