Connected to Give: Jewish Legacies

This is the second report in the "Connected to Give" series, and compares Jews on all sides of planned giving -- those with and without wills, those whose wills do and do not contain provisions for charitable bequests, and those whose charitable bequests do and do not include Jewish causes

Connected to Give: Key Findings

This is the first in a series of reports based upon the wealth of data from National Study of American Jewish Giving. The key findings represent the top level of information gleaned from the studies, but there is much more to be explored. In addition to findings that relate giving to demography and identity, there are additional data about specific populations, particular areas of interest, and individual modes of giving

Connected to Give: Faith Communities

This is the third report in the "Connected to Give" series, and compares the relationship between the charitable giving behavior of American's from a variety of backgrounds, including their key demographics; an examination their motivations for giving; and the types of organizations to which they contribute

Personal Knowledge and Beyond: Reshaping the Ethnography of Religion

Over the last decade, the sociology of religion and religious studies have experienced a surge of ethnographic research. Scholars now use ethnography, as anthropologists have long done, as a valued source of knowledge from which they draw their pictures of the religious world. Yet, many researchers of religion have yet to grapple with the issues that are changing anthropologists\u27 use of the method. This edited collection provides an overview of recent debates while also pushing them in new directions. In addition, it offers a critique of some of anthropology\u27s reigning conceptualizations.https://inspire.redlands.edu/oh_books/1041/thumbnail.jp