Religious Certainty as Social Capital

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 maintaine...

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Autor principal: Wollschleger, Jason (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
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Publicado: Springer 2021
En: Review of religious research
Año: 2021, Volumen: 63, Número: 3, Páginas: 325-342
Otras palabras clave:B Social Capital
B Congregations
B Secularization
B religious participation
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Sumario: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.
ISSN:2211-4866
Obras secundarias:Enthalten in: Review of religious research
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s13644-021-00462-1