‘You Can Do Anything With a Temple’: Religion, philanthropy, and politics in South London and Sri Lanka
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DOI: 10.1017/s0026749x17000385
Abstract: Abstract Our title quotation is taken from an interview with the chief trustee of a leading Hindu temple in south London, and captures the curious mixture of philanthropy, politics, and individual ambition that has emerged… read more here.
Keywords: philanthropy; sri lanka; temple religion; philanthropy politics ... See more keywords
Philanthropy: The politics of giving
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DOI: 10.1038/544031a
Abstract: Glen Van Brummelen (Princeton Univ. Press, 2017) Once a mainstay of mathematics, spherical trigonometry no longer appears on school curricula. Here, Glen Van Brummelen reasserts the field’s importance, sharing in illuminating detail how it figured… read more here.
Keywords: politics giving; philanthropy politics; cartography;