David P. King

David P. King is the Karen Lake Buttrey Director of the Lake Institute on Faith and Giving as well as assistant professor of philanthropic studies within the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. Trained as an American religious historian, his research interests broadly include exploring the practices of twentieth-century American and global faith communities as well as more specifically investigating how the religious identity of faith-based nonprofits shapes their motivations, rhetoric, and practice. He is the author of the recent book God’s Internationalists: World Vision and the Age of Evangelical Humanitarianism (UPenn Press 2019) tracing the almost seventy-year history of World Vision, the world’s largest Christian humanitarian organization, and the forthcoming edited volume with Philip Goff, Religion and Philanthropy in the U.S. (Indiana University Press).

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