RT Article
T1 Religious Certainty as Social Capital
JF Review of religious research
VO 63
IS 3
SP 325
OP 342
A1 Wollschleger, Jason
LA English
PB Springer
YR 2021
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1777418607
AB Recent scholarship on the social embeddedness of religion indicate that religious choices are often best explained through social ties, and religious belief and practice is influenced by congregational embeddedness. Berger’s theory of secularization argued that plausibility structures were maintained by interactions with others with the same worldview, and that outgroup ties can reduce one’s certainty in religion and be detrimental to the religious group. Taken together these approaches suggest that religious certainty functions like Coleman’s conceptualization of social capital.PurposeThe purpose of this present study is to begin to conceptualize religious certainty as a form of social capital: something that inheres in social relationships and serves as a resource for future religious action of the individual; as well as potentially serving a resource for congregations.
K1 Congregations
K1 religious participation
K1 Secularization
K1 Social Capital
DO 10.1007/s13644-021-00462-1