Not a lonely crowd? Social connectedness, religious service attendance, and the spiritual but not religious
| Autor: | Orestes P. Hastings |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Male 050402 sociology Sociology and Political Science Social connectedness 0603 philosophy ethics and religion Religious identity Education Portrait 0504 sociology Spirituality Humans Aged Service (business) 060303 religions & theology Loneliness 05 social sciences Attendance Social Support 06 humanities and the arts Middle Aged Social Participation Social relation Religion General Social Survey Social Isolation Social Capital Female Psychology Social psychology |
| Zdroj: | Social Science Research. 57:63-79 |
| ISSN: | 0049-089X |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2016.01.006 |
| Popis: | Using the 2006–2014 General Social Survey and 2006–2012 Portraits of American Life Study, I find that on three dimensions of social connectedness: social interaction frequency, core discussion network size, and number of close ties, that religious service attenders are more connected than religious non-attenders and then either spiritual nor religious, but there are few differences between attenders and the spiritual but not religious. Difference-in-differences and fixed-effects models show little evidence that switches between categories are associated with changes in connectedness, and additional models show that prior social connectedness explains only a small amount of future switches. This paper challenges assumptions that the non-religious are a homogenous group lacking the benefits provided though the social networks of religious congregations and has implications for research on what it means to be spiritual, measuring religion and spirituality, and understanding the role of formal organizations in social life. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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