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Wealth and Piety: Middle Eastern Perspectives for Expat Workers
Wealth and Piety: Middle Eastern Perspectives for Expat Workers
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Middle Eastern Perspectives for Expat Workers
Your supporters consider you saintly and self-sacrificing. Your Middle Eastern friends might beg to differ. So might God.
Wealth and Piety explores biblical and Arab cultural expectations for getting, using, talking about, and giving money. This book contains hundreds of verbatim observations about local and foreign wealth by thirty-five Middle Easterners from nine countries, representing all major religious groups. These comments are a mirror in which workers can see their own status and moral reputation as people of the region see them. Combining biblical commentary, cultural analysis and practical advice for expats, Wealth and Piety is designed for both new and experienced workers, as well as mission leaders, administrators, supporters, and donors.
Although focused on the Middle East, much of the wisdom of this book is valuable for workers anywhere in the Muslim world or in societies characterized by patronage or an honor/shame orientation.
Author: Karen L. H. Shaw
Publisher: William Carey Publishing
Published: 08/15/2018
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780878080793
Your supporters consider you saintly and self-sacrificing. Your Middle Eastern friends might beg to differ. So might God.
Wealth and Piety explores biblical and Arab cultural expectations for getting, using, talking about, and giving money. This book contains hundreds of verbatim observations about local and foreign wealth by thirty-five Middle Easterners from nine countries, representing all major religious groups. These comments are a mirror in which workers can see their own status and moral reputation as people of the region see them. Combining biblical commentary, cultural analysis and practical advice for expats, Wealth and Piety is designed for both new and experienced workers, as well as mission leaders, administrators, supporters, and donors.
Although focused on the Middle East, much of the wisdom of this book is valuable for workers anywhere in the Muslim world or in societies characterized by patronage or an honor/shame orientation.
Author: Karen L. H. Shaw
Publisher: William Carey Publishing
Published: 08/15/2018
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780878080793
About the Author
Karen L.H. Shaw is assistant professor of cross-cultural ministry at Arab Baptist Theological Seminary in Mansourieh al-Metn, Lebanon, and she pastors International Community Church, in Beirut. She and her husband, Perry, have lived in the Middle East since 1990. They have two adult children, Chris and Phoebe.
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