From Pews to Participation: The Effect of Congregation Activity and Context on Bridging Civic Engagement

Beyerlein, Kraig; Hipp, John R.

doi:10.1525/sp.2006.53.1.97

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“…Thus far, one common thread appearing in social scientific research on civic engagement has been the role of religiosity in fostering prosocial behaviors such as volunteering and charitable giving [30][31][32]. The general consensus is that religiosity motivates and bolsters civic engagement in the form of religious volunteerism and charitable giving [32][33][34].…”

Section: Volunteerism and Religiositymentioning

confidence: 99%

Secular Volunteerism among Texan Emerging Adults: Exploring Pathways of Childhood and Adulthood Religiosity

DeAngelis

Acevedo

2016

Religions

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Prior research suggests that religiosity, especially public religious participation, is related to greater volunteerism. However, less is known about religious transmission across the life course, in particular whether and how religiosity in childhood is linked to later life volunteerism. This study investigates a sample of emerging adults in South Texas (n = 701) with a high percent of Hispanic Americans (53 percent). Specifically, we examine pathways of childhood and emerging adulthood religiosity leading to secular volunteerism. Findings indicate that both childhood and emerging adulthood religiosity are associated with greater volunteerism, but the effects of childhood religiosity on emerging adulthood volunteerism are mediated through emerging adulthood religiosity. These findings provide further confirmation of the importance of childhood religiosity only insofar as religiousness persists into adulthood. In other words, we find that it is emerging adulthood religiosity that transmits childhood religiosity into greater secular volunteerism in later life. Furthermore, emerging adulthood public religiosity has the most robust direct effects on volunteerism.

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Section: Volunteerism and Religiositymentioning

confidence: 99%

Secular Volunteerism among Texan Emerging Adults: Exploring Pathways of Childhood and Adulthood Religiosity

DeAngelis

Acevedo

2016

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“…This oversight in the literature is curious, given that religious affiliation ties persons to social networks offering resources that can be used to respond to threats to well-being such as crime. Additionally, and perhaps most crucially, religious affiliation has been found to build generalized trust (trust in others unknown to us) in participants [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]. This form of trust has been characterized as -the foundation of a civil society… (that) eases the way toward getting people to work together‖ [19].…”

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Does Religious Involvement Generate or Inhibit Fear of Crime?

2011

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Abstract:In victimology, fear of crime is understood as an emotional response to the perceived threat of crime. Fear of crime has been found to be affected by several variables besides local crime rates and personal experiences with victimization. This study examines the relationship between religion and fear of crime, an underexplored topic in the criminological literature. This gap is rather surprising given the central role religion has been found to play in shaping the attitudes and perceptions of congregants. In particular, religion has been found to foster generalized trust, which should engender lower levels of distrust or misanthropy, including that which is directed towards a general fear of crime. OLS regression was performed using data from the West Georgia Area Survey (n = 380). Controlling for demographic, community involvement, and political ideology variables, frequency of religious attendance was significantly and negatively associated with fear of property crime. This relationship remained even after a perceived neighborhood safety variable was introduced to the model. However, religious attendance was not significantly related to fear of violent crime, and religious orientation was unrelated to fear of property and violent crime. These results suggest that religious involvement conditionally reduces fear of crime, and the authors recommend that future research explore relationships between religion and fear of crime.

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“…Although some theory suggests developing bonding capital may detract from developing bridging capital in some denominations (Beyerlein andHipp 2006, Wilson andJanoski 1995), previous studies of Australian churches suggests the opposite maybe true (Leonard and Bellamy 2010). Work with immigrant and multi-ethnic churches suggests migrants can develop networks in the wider community through the contacts that they make within their congregation (Allen 2010, Ley 2008.…”

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Bonding and bridging among first generation Asian migrants in Australian protestant churches

Village

Powell

Pepper

2016

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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From Pews to Participation: The Effect of Congregation Activity and Context on Bridging Civic Engagement

Cited by 204 publications

References 35 publications

Secular Volunteerism among Texan Emerging Adults: Exploring Pathways of Childhood and Adulthood Religiosity

Secular Volunteerism among Texan Emerging Adults: Exploring Pathways of Childhood and Adulthood Religiosity

Does Religious Involvement Generate or Inhibit Fear of Crime?

Bonding and bridging among first generation Asian migrants in Australian protestant churches

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