The Origin of Christian Charity

[Madness, Christian charity, and modernity in Arraial do Tijuco].

Christian Norberg-Schulz and the Existential Space

The historian-theoretician Christian Norberg-Schulz, examining the development of his ideas across 30 years. While Norberg-Schulz started out with Intentions in Architecture (1963), a work that was clearly influenced by structuralist studies, he soon shifted to a phenomenological approach with Existence, Space and Architecture (1971), and then with Genius Loci (1980) and The Concept of Dwelling...

Charity ratings

How do charitable donors respond to the third party ratings that signal the quality of charities? I investigate this question using a novel data set from Charity Navigator which provides quality ratings for 5400 charities. Since Charity Navigator prominently displays a charity’s star rating which is assigned based on its overall rating, one can identify the causal impact of a one star increase ...

Position, Etiquette and Effects of charity according to the Quran

The purpose of this paper is to examine the dimensions of charity in the Holy Quran. The meaning of charity and the extent of the charity were studied. Several studies conducted in recent years about the charity were briefly discussed. The dimensions of charity, according to the Quran, in four dimensions: Importance of charity in the Holy Quran; Quran metaphors about charity; Conditions of Char...

the effect of taftan pozzolan on the compressive strength of concrete in the environmental conditions of oman sea (chabahar port)

cement is an essential ingredient in the concrete buildings. for production of cement considerable amount of fossil fuel and electrical energy is consumed. on the other hand for generating one tone of portland cement, nearly one ton of carbon dioxide is released. it shows that 7 percent of the total released carbon dioxide in the world relates to the cement industry. considering ecological issu...