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Religion and Civic Engagement: A Comparative Analysis:
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This paper examined the relationship between religious involvement and civic engagement in a comparative, cross-cultural perspective using data from a 1996 survey of 3000 Canadians and 3000 Americans, and found that both religious tradition and, more important, church attendance play an important role in fostering involvement in civil society in both countries, even after controlling for the effects of other factors generally associated with fostering civic activity among members of society.Abstract:
This study examines the relationship between religious involvement and civic engagement in a comparative, cross-cultural perspective. Using data from a 1996 survey of 3000 Canadians and 3000 Americans, the study assesses religion's relative contribution to civic engagement in the two settings. The study reveals that both religious tradition and, more important, church attendance play an important role in fostering involvement in civil society in both countries, even after controlling for the effects of other factors generally associated with fostering civic activity among members of society.read more
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Democracy in America: An Appreciation On the Occasion of the Centennial of Tocqueville's Death
Bernard Rosenberg,Dennis H. Wong +1 more
TL;DR: More recently, Tocqueville as mentioned in this paper argued that "nothing has changed and nothing has changed since Democracy in America was published in the 1830's" and that "everything has changed with each exposure to it".
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Beyond Beliefs: Religions Bind Individuals Into Moral Communities
Jesse Graham,Jonathan Haidt +1 more
TL;DR: The authors argue that social psychology can best contribute to scholarship on religion by being relentlessly social, and begin with a social-functionalist approach in which beliefs, rituals, and other aspects of religious practice are best understood as means of creating a moral community.
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Theorizing Religious Effects Among American Adolescents
TL;DR: A large body of empirical studies shows that religion often serves as a factor promoting positive, healthy outcomes in the lives of American adolescents as discussed by the authors. Yet existing theoretical explanations for these religious effects remain largely disjointed and fragmented.
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Social capital and health in Australia: An overview from the household, income and labour dynamics in Australia survey.
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TL;DR: Social capital was related to three forms of health, especially to mental health, and gender differences in this relationship were evident, with women reporting greater community participation and social cohesion than men, yet worse mental health.
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Social capital and civic action: A network-based approach
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose that social capital, defined as resources embedded in individual and organizational networks, produces expressive and instrumental civic actions, and use the 2000 Social Capital Benchmark Survey data to examine the hypothesis.
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