Religious Service Attendance and Religious and Secular Organizational Engagement in the United Kingdom
The study uses nationally representative data to examine whether the moral freighting Putnam and Campbell (2010) propose, based on American experiences, may apply to overall British society. Specifically, it tests whether religious service attendance increases religious or secular organizational act...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Journals Online & Print: | Drawer...
|
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Published: |
2024
|
| In: |
Journal for the scientific study of religion
Year: 2024, Volume: 63, Issue: 1, Pages: 42-61 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Great Britain
/ Church attendance
/ Social engagement
/ Religious commitment
/ Moral sense
/ History 1991-2008
|
| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AE Psychology of religion KBF British Isles NCB Personal ethics TK Recent history |
| Further subjects: | B
moral freighting
B reciprocal relationship B religious and secular organizational engagement B Religious service attendance |
| Online Access: |
Volltext (kostenfrei) Volltext (kostenfrei) |
| Summary: | The study uses nationally representative data to examine whether the moral freighting Putnam and Campbell (2010) propose, based on American experiences, may apply to overall British society. Specifically, it tests whether religious service attendance increases religious or secular organizational activities, possibly due to moral freighting that encourages religious congregants to practice their faith, transcending ego boundaries and self-interest. It is also necessary to determine if engagement in religious or secular organizational activities elevates the degree of religious service attendance, thus forming a bidirectional association. The study employs the maximum likelihood-structural equation modeling (ML-SEM) method to verify the proposed reciprocity. The empirical tests confirm that a synergistic reciprocal relationship is established between religious service attendance and religious organizational engagement, and that religious service attendance increases secular organizational engagement. However, secular organizational engagement does not make a bidirectional contribution to religious service attendance. |
|---|---|
| ISSN: | 1468-5906 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the scientific study of religion
|
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/jssr.12878 |