Religion and Civic Culture: A Cross‐National Study of Voluntary Association Membership
Religion and Civic Culture: A Cross‐National Study of Voluntary Association Membership
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宗教与公民文化：自愿协会会员资格的跨国研究
DOI：
10.1111/j.1468-5906.2006.00300.x
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发表时间：
2006
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Pui
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Pui
本文通过对志愿协会成员的跨国研究，探讨宗教如何塑造公民文化。我采用多层次的方法来研究宗教在个人和国家层面的影响。首先，我假设新教徒比天主教徒更有可能持有自愿协会会员资格。其次，我假设新教国家的总体成员率高于天主教国家。第三，我调查，如果世俗化减少了个人层面的天主教徒和新教的差异，在一个国家内的自愿协会会员。我用来自29个国家的个人和国家层面的数据，使用分层非线性模型来检验假设。调查结果显示，新教徒比天主教徒更有可能成为自愿协会的成员，而新教徒与属于“其他”或没有宗教的人之间没有区别。与此同时，天主教国家的总体成员率低于新教国家。这一结果可以被解释为一种“双重消极”的天主教效应。最后，世俗化对天主教和新教差异的影响在统计学上并不显著。
This article explores how religion shapes civic cultures through a cross-national study of voluntary association membership. I adopt a multi-level approach to examine the influence of religion at both individual and country level. First, I hypothesize that Protestants are more likely than Catholics to hold voluntary association membership. Second, I hypothesize that Protestant nations have a higher overall membership rate compared to Catholic nations. Third, I investigate if secularization has reduced individual-level Catholic-Protestant differences in voluntary association membership within a nation. I test the hypotheses using hierarchical nonlinear models with individual-level and country-level data from 29 nations. The findings show that Protestants are more likely than Catholics to be members of voluntary associations, while there is no difference between Protestants and those who belong to "Other" or no religions. At the same time, Catholic nations have lower overall membership rates compared to Protestant nations. The results can be interpreted as a "double negative" Catholic effect. Finally, the effect of secularization on Catholic-Protestant differences is statistically nonsignificant.