Religion and volunteering : complex, contested and ambiguous relationships /: complex, contested and ambiguous relationships. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Lesley Hustinx [and three others], editors ; John Bellamy [and twenty one others], contributors.
• Editors: Hustinx, Lesley
• Other Names: Bellamy, John contributor.
• Contents: Chapter 1. Religion and volunteering: Complex, contested and ambiguous relationships -- Chapter 2. Christian calling and volunteering -- Chapter 3. If I am only for myself, who am I? Volunteering and righteousness in Judaism -- Chapter 4. Philanthropic virtue -- Chapter 5. Religiosity and formal volunteering in global perspective -- Chapter 6. A cross-national examination of motivation to volunteer: Religious context, national value patterns, and nonprofit regimes -- Chapter 7. Volunteering among church attendees in Australia: Individual and collective dimensions -- Chapter 8. Lost and found in secularization: A religious perspective on the meaning of volunteering -- Chapter 9. Making church happen: Architectural methods to transform Flanders' parish churches into civic collectives -- Chapter 10. Restorative justice and volunteering in a secular age -- Chapter 11. Short-Term Mission Voluntarism and the Post-secular Imaginary -- Chapter 12. Religion and social solidarity: A pragmatist approach -- Chapter 13. 'Your prayer moves God': On the relation between voluntarism, the emergent Charismatic movement in Beirut and social capital -- Chapter 14. Faith-based organizations and civic engagement in Egypt: Can FBOs be agents for change? -- Chapter 15. 'Go back to our values': Restoring symbolic hegemony through promoting 'volunteering' -- Chapter 16. Volunteering in religious communities: What does it bring to society? Calculating Social Yield.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2015
• Copyright Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (354 pages), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 361.37; Social sciences; Voluntarism; Voluntarism -- Religious aspects; PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology; Voluntarism; Voluntarism -- Religious aspects; Social Sciences; Sociology, general; Sociology of Culture; Religious Studies, general; Social Science -- Sociology of Religion; Religion -- General; Religious groups: social & cultural aspects; Religion: general; Religion; Social Science -- Sociology -- General; Sociology; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319045849; 3319045849; 9783319045856; 3319045857
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 7, 2014).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.