"Care and Community in Modern Society: Passing on the
Service of Care to the Next Generation."
Edited by Paul G. Schervish, Virginia A. Hodgkinson, and Margaret Gates.
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1995.
Twenty-two original essays by scholars and
practitioners examining the intergenerational transmission of care and philanthropic
orientations. Contributors across disciplines explore how individuals become
involved in caring for others and the role such care plays in providing a foundation
for civic, ethical, and spiritual traditions. They offer theories and models
of a caring community and reveal how care is delivered by families, schools,
communities, and society, examining factors such as public policies that promote
service and the motivations of philanthropists and community volunteers.
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"Charitable Giving: How Much, By Whom, To What, and Why."
Paul G. Schervish, John J. Havens and Mary A. O'Herlihy. The Nonprofit Sector:
A Research Handbook, Second Edition. Walter W. Powell and Richard Steinberg
(eds.) Yale University Press. 2006. Four aspects of charitable giving are discussed
in this chapter: how much is given in total; the patterns of giving broken down
by demographic and behavioral characteristics; how much is given to various
areas of need; and how donors are giving, that is, through outright cash gifts,
or through more formal and strategic methods.
"Christmas and the Elementary Forms of the Spiritual Life."
Paul G. Schervish. In CCCIA Annual 1995: The Church and Popular Culture. Catholic
Commission on Intellectual and Cultural Affairs: Philadelphia, 1995. 62-79.
This paper offers a novel theoretical and methodological framework for examining
the most deeply seated features of cultural and emotional life, what in more
common parlance is called spirituality. My purpose is to explore Christmas,
while at the same time developing a mode of sociological analysis that takes
people's spiritual experiences as seriously as the personal and social effects
produced by those experiences.
"Comparisons Between Gallup / IS and Boston Area Diary Study
Data: Report of Findings."
John J. Havens and Paul G. Schervish. Social
Welfare Research Institute, Boston College, Mar. 31, 1997.
This report documents the results of comparisons between data on giving,
volunteering, and income collected by the Gallup Organization for the Independent
Sector and corresponding data for the same respondents collected by the "Boston
Area Diary Study" (BADS). In general we find that there are major differences
between amounts of time volunteered, money and goods contributed, and family
income reported to Gallup as compared with the same information reported to
"BADS" by the same respondents.
"Consumption Philanthropy: 'Taking Care of Your Own Business First.'"
Paul G. Schervish. Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations 4, no. 2 (1993): 223-232.
This paper addresses three topics to which researchers should turn their
attention in regard to the dependent variable of giving and volunteering.
"Contemporary Gospels of Wealth: Narratives of Power and
Responsibility."
Paul G. Schervish. Advancing Philanthropy: Journal of the National Society of
Fund Raising Executives 1, no. 1 (Fall 1993): 26-29.
The number of
millionaires in the United States could triple within the next 20 years, as
wealth is transferred from the aging wealthy to their children. What can fundraisers
expect when they knock on the door of tomorrow's donors? A researcher on philanthropy
and wealth discusses six factors that encourage a charitable commitment in the
next generation.
"Contributory Philanthropy: 'I Go to Functions, But I Don't
Get Involved.'"
Paul G. Schervish. In Taking Giving Seriously, edited by Paul G. Schervish,
Obie Benz, Peggy Dulaney, Thomas B. Murphy, and Stanley Salett. Indianapolis:
Indiana University Center on Philanthropy, 1993. 85-104.
This paper proposes
a definition of philanthropy as a social relation of care and explores what
it means for philanthropy to become integral to moral identity. To say that
one has a philanthropic identity means that one's moral biography is shaped
in large measure by devotion to the quantity and quality of one's charity.
"Creating a Moral Biography of Wealth: A Conversation with
Paul G. Schervish."
Creating a moral biography of wealth is a process that ultimately
helps wealth-holders chart a path of greater happiness - for themselves, their
families, and the world around them. Paul Schervish discusses this spiritual
process of self-examination that goes well beyond portfolio analysis or financial
tools in the Merrill Lynch Whitepaper, Creating a Moral Biography of Wealth:
A Conversation with Paul G. Schervish. For the full text of this conversation
please follow the link below.
Creating a Moral Biography of Wealth: A Conversation with Paul G. Schervish
"Culture and Emotion in Christmas: The Elementary Forms of
the Spiritual Life."
Paul G. Schervish, Raymond Halnon, and Karen Bettez-Halnon.
The International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 16, no. 9/10 (1996):
144-170.
In the first section of the paper, the authors examine a passage from the
book of Deuteronomy about spiritual life and explore what sociological inquiry
needs to add to its analytic arsenal in order to adequately interpret profound
meaning. In the second section of the paper, the authors analyze several passages
drawn from among the sixty interviews conducted in conjunction with the Boston
College study, "The Contradictions of Christmas: Troubles and Traditions in
Culture, Home, and Heart." In the third section, they chart the rudiments
of a social-psychological theory of spirituality, emphasizing the elementary
spiritual contradiction between nurturing mysterium and debilitating
onus.
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