Handbook of Biblical Social Values, Third Edition

Pilch, Malina

• Publisher: Cascade Books
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN: 9781498289658
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Religion

Values are culturally specific. This handbook explains select biblical social values in their Mediterranean cultural contexts. Some examples of values are altruism, freedom, family-centeredness, obedience, parenting, and power. Though the English words for the values described here would be familiar to readers (e.g., altruism) the meanings of such words differ between cultures. In the Mediterranean world, for instance, altruism is a duty incumbent upon anyone who has surplus. It is interpersonal and group specific. In the West, especially in the United States, altruism is impersonal and universally oriented generosity that operates in a highly organized context. This handbook not only presents the Mediterranean meanings of these value words but also contrasts those meanings with Western ones.

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General Social-Scientific Works

Althen, Gary, with Janet Bennett. 2011. American Ways: A Cultural Guide to the United States. 2nd ed. Boston: Intercultural Press.

Augsburger, David W. 1986. Pastoral Counseling across Cultures. Philadelphia: West-minster.

Barnard, Alan, and Jonathan Spencer, eds. 2010. The Routledge Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology. 2nd ed. London: Routledge.

Barrett, Lisa Feldman, Michael Lewis, and Jeannette M. Haviland-Jones, eds. 2016. Hand-book of Emotions. 4th ed. New York: Guilford.

Carney, Thomas F. 1975. The Shape of the Past: Models and Antiquity. Lawre...

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Preface to the Third Edition
• Preface to the Second Edition
• Contributors
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Active/Passiveness
• Select Bibliography