Charities in the Non-Western World [Texte imprimé] : the development and regulation of indigenous and Islamic charities / edited by Rajeswary Ampalavanar Brown and Justin Pierce

Notes bibliogr.

Everything is politics : understanding the political dimensions of NGO legitimacy in conflict-affected regions / Oliver Walton -- The role and governance of Islamic faith organisations in South Africa / Justin Pierce -- Co-operatives and the state in Burma/Myanmar, 1900-2012 : a case study of failed top-down co-operative development models? / Anthony Webster -- Charity reconstructed : the transformation of social welfare in rural Japan in the nineteenth century / Marion Ehlers -- Private charities and the public good : institutional memory of plague prevention in Manchuria / Thomas Dubois -- Re-form hui identity and the communal network in the imperial extension from Ming to Qing in southwest Chinese frontier / Ma Jianxiong -- Universalistic humanitarianism in mainland China : a case study of a French NGO / Gilles Guiheux and Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce -- In the world but not of the world : governing Christian charities in contemporary China / Nanlai Cao -- Boundaries of non-state welfare provision : comparative evidence from Turkey, Sudan and Germany / Fulya Apaydin -- The diversity of Islamic charitable activities : analytical distinctions among Shi'a Muslim organizations in Lebanon / Melani Cammett -- Saudi charitable impulse abroad : the coercive power of belief and money in Thailand / Rajeswary Ampalavanar Brown -- Saudi charity to Hadhramaut as a bone of contention : the Hijaz Fund episode, 1949-50 / Christian Lekon -- Comparative perspective on the growth and legal transformations of Arab (Islamic) charities / Benoit Challand -- Colonial state and Muslim institutions : history of regulatory framework for awqaf (religious endowments) in British India / Muhammad Zubair Abbasi

"This book looks at the operation of indigenous charities at a regional, localised and global level. Chapters focus on the adaptation, accountability and operation of charities across a wide range of jurisdictions from China to Indonesia, Thailand, Iran, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Lebanon and Turkey. It examines the ownership, participation and accountability of charities in a regional, localised and international context, and draws on the experiences and operation of charities"-- Provided by publisher