Home›Charitable Practices›All Charitable PracticesBrowse ByAll Charitable PracticesGiving as a formalised religious obligation rather than general ethics, alms, tithes and comparable structures such as zakat, tithing and dana. Several of these practices carry a specific required proportion or occasion, which the entries record rather than treating charity as a vague good.FactsLearn MoreAll Charitable PracticesSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsOverviewWhat Defines This GroupingWell-attestedGiving required or commended by a tradition - zakat, tithing, sadaqah, seva, langar. The grouping holds obligatory levies at a fixed rate with named categories of recipient alongside voluntary gifts and unpaid service, which are not the same kind of act: a legal due and a free gift differ in who may compel them and in what failing to give means. 2StatusStanding as a Comparative CategoryWell-attestedA standard analytic category in the study of religion 2DirectoryCategoryWell-attestedPractices 1Learn MoreThe charitable practices This group holds charitable practices, the acts of giving and service enjoined by the traditions as religious duty and virtue: almsgiving, care for the poor and the stranger, and generosity as a path of merit or righteousness. Charity is a central obligation in most of the world's religions. The browser will find charitable practices from across the traditions. The entries describe each practice's form and religious basis, noting the tradition that commands it.All Charitable PracticesFilter Results11 entriesOrigin Period Start YearAll-1000 (1)610 (2)622 (3)1499 (1)1500 (1)2018 (1)Solitary or CommunalAllPerformed alone or together (7)Performed by a gathered group (4)TraditionAllAfrican Methodist Episcopal Church (1)African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (1)Amish (1)Anglican Communion (1)Anglicanism (1)Armenian Apostolic Church (1)Baptist (2)Breslov Hasidism (2)Calvinism (Reformed) (1)Chabad-Lubavitch (2)Christian Methodist Episcopal Church (1)Church of Cyprus (1)Church of England (1)Church of Greece (1)Church of Ireland (1)Church of Scotland (1)Church of Sweden (1)Church of the Nazarene (1)Coptic Orthodoxy (1)Disciples of Christ (1)Dutch Reformed Church (1)Eastern Orthodoxy (1)Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople (1)Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church (1)Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (1)Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (1)Free Methodist Church (1)Georgian Orthodox Church (1)Global Methodist Church (1)Greek Orthodox Church (1)Haredi Judaism (2)Hasidic Judaism (2)Humanistic Judaism (1)Khalsa (1)Latter-day Saints (Mormonism) (1)Lutheranism (1)Mennonites (1)Methodism (1)Modern Orthodox Judaism (2)Moravian Church (1)National Baptist Convention of America (2)Nirmala (1)Oriental Orthodoxy (1)Orthodox Judaism (2)Presbyterianism (1)Progressive National Baptist Convention (2)Quakerism (Religious Society of Friends) (1)Reform Judaism (1)Roman Catholicism (1)Romanian Orthodox Church (1)Russian Orthodox Church (1)Serbian Orthodox Church (1)Shakers (1)Shia (Twelver) (1)The Episcopal Church (1)The United Methodist Church (1)Udasi (1)Ukrainian Orthodox Church (1)Wesleyan Church (1)Category of PracticeAllCharitable (3)Who Performs ItAllAll adherents of the tradition (9)Lay people (2)Practice StatusAllLiving tradition, practised today (10)Scholarly StandingAllA standard analytic category in the study of religion (11)CadenceAllAnnual (4)As the occasion requires (2)Daily (1)ObligationAllObligatory (1)Obligatory on those who meet its conditions (3)Optional and voluntary (1)Recommended and meritorious, not required (1)Founded ByAllMata Khivi (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 11Almsgiving / CharityCharitable PracticesGoshalaCharitable PracticesKhumsCharitable PracticesLangarCharitable PracticesMinisteringCharitable PracticesSadaqahCharitable PracticesSeva (selfless service)Charitable PracticesTithingCharitable PracticesZakatCharitable PracticesZakat al-FitrCharitable PracticesZakat al-MalCharitable PracticesSources1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Treetier 12. Encyclopedia of Religiontier 1Mircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.), Macmillan Reference, 2005s.v. AlmsgivingView the SourceDivinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptionstier 1Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.