Religion and volunteering: complex,contested and ambiguous/
Johan von Essen, Lesley Hustinx, Jacques Haers and Sara Mels
- New York: Springer, 2015.
- 352p.
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.
9783319045849
Voluntarism--Religious aspects Voluntarism Social sciences