Is generosity a value, risk, counter-value or question in the contemporary Western context? How is human generosity, aroused and directed by primary of God, at heart current challenges missionary encounter? This reflexion crosses anthropological, spiritual biblical dimensions notion to answer these questions, beginning avoiding pitfalls generosity. We could see then how actualize evangelical ca...

Past research argues that religious commitments shape individuals’ prosocial sentiments, including their generosity and solidarity. But what drives the prosociality of less religious people? Three studies tested the hypothesis that, with fewer religious expectations of prosociality, less religious individuals’ levels of compassion will play a larger role in their prosocial tendencies. In Study ...

Today a convergence between the fields of anthropology and economics has re-emerged after decades during which the dictates of methodological individualism, as strikingly elucidated by Kenneth Arrow, had seriously limited and hampered effective scholarship in studies of economic and social development in developing countries. A new generation of development economists represented by Spolaori an...

We examine experimentally how a person’s generosity depends on the degree of anonymity between giver and recipient, as well as on the parties’ sexes. Less is given when the giver is paid on stage rather than in private; men receive less than women; fewer men than women give non-zero amounts. The results suggest that it may be problematic to organize experimental data in terms of social distance...

generosity is the human nameaned sign that god has created him on the basis of them as says;' indeed we honored the children of adam provided them with means of transportation on land and sea; and also provided them lowful and pur sustenance and preferred them abovemany of our creatures'(esra,70). in this manner put him the best nobleman of his creatures. the keeping of human generosi...