Religion and Volunteering

Bellamy, John; Leonard, Rosemary

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-04585-6

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“…Many studies suggest that congregational members are more likely to volunteer and be generous as compared with nonattenders (Cnaan, Kasternakis, & Wineburg, 1993; Hustinx, Von Essen, Haers, & Mels, 2015; Jackson, Bachmeier, Wood, & Craft, 1995; Putnam & Campbell, 2010; Ruiter & De Graaf, 2006; Schervish & Havens, 1997; Stroope, 2012; Wuthnow, 1991). A review of Gallup data from 145 countries found that those who had attended a place of worship in the past week were more likely to volunteer (Smith & Stark, 2014).…”

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Determinants of serving a mission: Senior volunteering among Latter-Day Saints.

Heist¹,

Cnaan²,

Lough³

2021

Psychology of Religion and Spirituality

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Seniors moving into retirement choose volunteering as a way to participate in meaningful activities while continuing their personal beliefs and social ties. Seniors with religious affiliations often volunteer within their faith community. These volunteers offer invaluable services to their religious organizations and the other members of their faith that benefit from their assistance. Determining what forms of service to give is an important choice for senior volunteers. Factors that influence how seniors choose to volunteer in a religious community are not well understood. We surveyed 964 seniors who are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints involved in three different forms of volunteering: in-church volunteering or "calling," extensive local volunteering or "church-service mission," and out-of-residency volunteering or "full-time mission." We assess what resources allow seniors to perform "missions," whether personality traits influence the decision to participate in this type of volunteering, how community embeddedness affects volunteer behavior, and how levels of religiosity correlate with volunteering behavior. Findings indicate that factors explaining whether Latter-day Saints choose to serve a mission in retirement are different from factors explaining the kind of mission one chooses to serve.

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Determinants of serving a mission: Senior volunteering among Latter-Day Saints.

Heist¹,

Cnaan²,

Lough³

2021

Psychology of Religion and Spirituality

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Psychedelic philanthropy: The nonprofit sector and Timothy Leary's 1960s psychedelic movement

Elcock¹

2021

J History Behavioral Science

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Little has been written on the financial support behind Timothy Leary's unorthodox research into mind-altering drugs like LSD and psilocybin and his subsequent psychedelic movement. Indeed several individuals and organizations helped the psychedelic cause by directly funding Leary's ventures, offering legal and logistic assistance, and organizing fund-raising campaigns. I argue that classic philanthropic attitudes and wealthy patrons played a major supporting role for Leary's psychedelic movement in the first part of the decade and that the changes in Leary's research objectives and his transition from academic to LSD guru were accompanied by changes in the patterns of support that occurred throughout the 1960s. This paper also connects Leary's legal troubles in the second part of the decade with the rise of the movement to legalize cannabis and points to historical continuity by looking at contemporary endeavors to fund psychedelic research.

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A Late-ModernTransformation of the Motivations to Volunteer? A Social Perspective on Italy

Guidi

Maraviglia²

2021

Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies

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Religion and Volunteering

Cited by 16 publications

References 106 publications

Determinants of serving a mission: Senior volunteering among Latter-Day Saints.

Determinants of serving a mission: Senior volunteering among Latter-Day Saints.

Psychedelic philanthropy: The nonprofit sector and Timothy Leary's 1960s psychedelic movement

A Late-ModernTransformation of the Motivations to Volunteer? A Social Perspective on Italy

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