Religion, networks, and neighborliness: The impact of religious social networks on civic engagement

Lewis, Valerie A.; MacGregor, Carol Ann; Putnam, Robert D.

doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2012.09.011

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“…For example, some authors have argued that church-based ties are more likely than nonreligiously-based ties to produce volunteering (Lewis et al 2013). However, given that Lewis et al only assessed religiously-based social ties, this study was unable to specifically address whether the same effect could not also be derived from nonreligious groups.…”

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“…However, previous research has often not separated in-from outgroup donations, nor specified general community volunteering (as opposed to group volunteering). We also ask the amount of charitable donations rather than asking whether or not the individual donated anything (cf Lewis et al 2013). Finally, the present study includes measures of homophily and parochialism including interpersonal trust, degree of contact with those from different ethnicities and religions, and a preference for children to retain their parents' own religious views.…”

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“…Therefore, in order to conclude that religion itself (that is, religious belief) is conducive to prosociality, these group and social level variables must first be separated and controlled. This has been illustrated recently by Lewis et al (2013), who found that the strength of religious social networks predicted prosocial outcomes while controlling for various variables such as general socialization, and explained the effect of church attendance on such outcomes, whereas beliefs with religious content showed no consistent relationship. However, the question remains whether these social networks have to be specifically religious in character.…”

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Nonreligious Group Factors Versus Religious Belief in the Prediction of Prosociality

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Previous research has suggested that religious belief is associated with a range of prosocial behaviors such as social embeddedness and generosity. However, this literature has often conflated belief in God with group involvement and failed to control for demographic and social network effects. Rather than assessing prosociality by comparing religious group members with the unaffiliated, the present study also includes secular/ nonreligious group members. Multiple regression analyses controlling for confounds diminishes many of the apparent differences between religious and nonreligious individuals. Belief in God itself accounts for approximately 1-2 % of the variance in social embeddedness domains and \1 % of the variance in the domains of outside-group charity and community volunteering. Belief in God is associated with homophily and parochial behavior such as within-group charitable donations and constrained contact with different others. These findings indicate that prosocial benefits are more related to general group membership equally available to religious and secular group members alike than they are to specifically religious content. Religious beliefs are related to within-group prosociality as well as homophily and parochialism directed to those outside the group.

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“…The general consensus is that religiosity motivates and bolsters civic engagement in the form of religious volunteerism and charitable giving [32][33][34]. Furthermore, findings in this body of work indicate that religiosity also fosters secular volunteerism [35].…”

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

DeAngelis

Acevedo

2016

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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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“…For example, religiosity facilitates everyday minimal-cost helping (Batara, 2015), cooperation and generosity (Ahmed, 2009), and even philanthropy (Lincoln, Morrissey, & Mundey, 2008). Religious individuals have also been stereotyped as helpful, generous, compassionate, and empathic (Lewis, MacGregor, & Putnam, 2013;Saroglou, Pichon, Trompette, Verschueren, & Dernelle, 2005;Underwood, 2002). Saroglou (2012) also found that in the data of European Social Survey (2006)(2007), religious people also were mostly helping Religious song as a facilitator of prosocial behavior…”

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Religious song as a facilitator of prosocial behavior

Batara¹

2015

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Religion plays an important role in human life. In a recent review, religiosity has been associated with prosocial behavior; although consistent, the association was weak (Saroglou, 2013). To understand religious prosociality, varying theoretical contentions were offered (Preston, Salomon, & Ritter, 2013). The present study tested Supernatural Monitoring Hypothesis and sought to identify the role of the thought of a watching God in a religious individual's prosocial behavior. With this aim, an experiment was conducted with two groups of participants wherein the experimental group was primed with the thought of a watching God through a song translation. Results of independent samples t-test showed that religious participants who were primed offered more time for a volunteer work compared to those who were not primed. Implications of this study point to the role of the thought of a watching God in prosocial behavior.

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Religion, networks, and neighborliness: The impact of religious social networks on civic engagement

Cited by 224 publications

References 42 publications

Nonreligious Group Factors Versus Religious Belief in the Prediction of Prosociality

Nonreligious Group Factors Versus Religious Belief in the Prediction of Prosociality

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

Religious song as a facilitator of prosocial behavior

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