Religious Affiliation, Religious Attendance and Participation in Social Change Organizations
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Guo, Chao
Webb, Natalie J.
Abzug, Rikki
Peck, Laura R.
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2011-09
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How does religion affect an individual’s likelihood of volunteering for social change
causes? This study reports on findings from an analysis of the 2005 wave of the COPPS
supplement to the PSID to examine the effects of religious tradition (affiliation) and religious
attendance (religiosity) on social change volunteering. We find that adherents to the more liberal
Christian denominations – mainline Protestant and Catholic – are more likely to volunteer with
social change organizations than are Evangelicals. We also find that adherents to other minority
religions such as Judaism and Buddhism and individuals with no religious belief are all more
likely to volunteer with social change organizations than are Evangelicals. We find a positive
and significant relationship between religious attendance and social change volunteering, but
find little difference in the effect of religious attendance on social change volunteering between
Evangelicals and other religious traditions (except for Catholics).
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.