Religion and Volunteering Complex, contested and ambiguous relationships /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hustinx, Lesley (Editor), von Essen, Johan (Editor), Haers, Jacques (Editor), Mels, Sara (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies, An International Multidisciplinary Series,
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Religion.; Sociology.; Religion and culture.; Social Sciences.; Sociology, general.; Sociology of Culture.; Religious Studies, general.

Religion is considered a key predictor of volunteering: the more religious people are, the more likely they are to volunteer. This positive association enjoys significant support in current research; in fact, it could be considered the ‘default perspective’ on the relationship between both phenomena...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Religion and volunteering: Complex, contested and ambiguous relationships
• Chapter 2. Christian calling and volunteering
• Chapter 3. If I am only for myself, who am I? Volunteering and righteousness in Judaism
• Chapter 4. Philanthropic virtue
• Chapter 5. Religiosity and formal volunteering in global perspective
• Chapter 6. A cross-national examination of motivation to volunteer: Religious context, national value patterns, and nonprofit regimes
• Chapter 7. Volunteering among church attendees in Australia: Individual and collective dimensions
• Chapter 8. Lost and found in secularization: A religious perspective on the meaning of volunteering
• Chapter 9. Making church happen: Architectural methods to transform Flanders’ parish churches into civic collectives
• Chapter 10. Restorative justice and volunteering in a secular age
• Chapter 11. Short-Term Mission Voluntarism and the Post-secular Imaginary
• Chapter 12. Religion and social solidarity: A pragmatist approach
• Chapter 13. “Your prayer moves God”: On the relation between voluntarism, the emergent Charismatic movement in Beirut and social capital
• Chapter 14. Faith-based organizations and civic engagement in Egypt: Can FBOs be agents for change?
• Chapter 15. ‘Go back to our values’: Restoring symbolic hegemony through promoting ‘volunteering’
• Chapter 16. Volunteering in religious communities: What does it bring to society? Calculating Social Yield.