A new movement is on the scene: effective altruism-the combination of love and efficiency
making the world a better place not just with a bleeding heart and empathy but with a radical
focus on reason and evidence and never losing sight of the goal of maximal impact. Its
adherents typically stem from strongly secular environments such as elite philosophy
departments or Silicon Valley. So far a religious perspective on this movement has been
lacking. What can people of faith learn from effective altruism how can they contribute and
what must they criticise? This volume offers a first examination of these questions providing
both a Buddhist and an Orthodox Jewish perspective on them in addition to various Christian
contributions.With contributions byCalvin Baker Lara Buchak Mara-Daria Cojocaru Stefan
Höschele Markus Huppenbauer Robert MacSwain David Manheim Kathryn Muyskens Stefan Riedener
Dominic Roser and Jakub Synowiec.
