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...
| Published in: | Review of religious research |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer
2021
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Review of religious research
Year: 2021, Volume: 63, Issue: 3, Pages: 325-342 |
| Further subjects: | B
Social Capital
B Congregations B Secularization B religious participation |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-4866 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review of religious research
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s13644-021-00462-1 |