1. Reciprocity and assistance in precolonial Africa / Steven Feierman -- 2. A comparative study in Native American philanthropy -- 3. Contextualizing philanthropy in South Asia : a textual analysis of Sanskrit sources / Leona Anderson -- 4. Generosity and service in Theravāda Buddhism / Ananda W.P Guruge and G.D. Bond -- 5. The Mahāyāna Buddhist foundation for philanthropic practices / Leslie S. Kawamura -- 6. Philanthropy, the law, and public policy in the Islamic world before the modern era / Said Amir Arjomand -- 7. Chinese philanthropy as seen through a case of famine relief in the 1640s / Joanna F. Handlin Smith -- 8. A view of philanthropy in Japan : Confucian ethics and education / Mary Evelyn Tucker -- 9. The origins of modern Jewish philanthropy / Derek J. Penslar -- 10. Mount Holyoke missionaries and non-Western women : the motivations and consequences of nineteenth-century American missionary philanthropy / Amanda Porterfield -- 11. Orthodox Christianity, the nation-state, and philanthropy : focus on the Serbian Orthodox Church / Miroslav Ružica -- 12. Hindu philanthropy and civil society / Mark Juergensmeyer and Darrini M. McMahon -- 13. Religious authority, reform, and philanthropy in the contemporary Muslim world / Gregory C. Kozlowski -- 14. From repression to revival : philanthropy in twentieth-century Russia / Adele Lindenmeyr -- 15. State power and the philanthropic impulse in China today / Vivienne Shue -- 16. Civil society and philanthropy in Latin America : from religious charity to the search for citizenship / Andrés A. Thompson and Leilah Landim.