Philanthropology, the Science of Philanthropy

Theo Schuyt (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

158 Seiten

2024 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-0364-0938-8 (ISBN)

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This book sheds a positive light on the prevalence of love for humankind in the form of philanthropy. All around our globe, people rich and poor, urban and rural, religious and non-religious, in "advanced" and "developing" societies alike, perform acts of philanthropy, organizationally embedded and guided by philanthropic values and norms. This book, therefore, attempts to reach a truly international audience, because philanthropy is not an exclusively Western phenomenon.Besides the growing public interest across the world, more and more academic disciplines are taking an interest in philanthropy, each scrutinizing philanthropy from their own disciplinary perspective and with a particular focus. As a result, however, the overall picture has rather faded into the background. In line with cultural anthropologists, the book presents philanthropy as a universal societal system, differently arranged in each society, that deserves a distinctive academic discipline: the science of philanthropology.

Theo Schuyt is a sociologist and Professor of Philanthropic Studies at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He is also the First Chair on Philanthropy in the Netherlands and the European Union. In 1995, he launched the research project "Giving in the Netherlands", and between 2001 and 2014 he was Director of the Center for Philanthropic Studies at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. In 2007, he co-founded the European Research Network on Philanthropy (ERNOP), which he chaired from 2008 to 2021. Between 2016 and 2020, he was a board member of the International Society of Third Sector Research (ISTR), and was both host and organizer of the ISTR 2018 conference in Amsterdam. From 2014 to 2018, he was also Professor of Philanthropy and Social Innovation at Maastricht University in the Netherlands.

Erscheinungsdatum	01.10.2024
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-0364-0938-4 / 1036409384
ISBN-13	978-1-0364-0938-8 / 9781036409388
Zustand	Neuware