Examining the Association of Religious Context with Giving to Non-Profit Organizations
Examining the Association of Religious Context with Giving to Non-Profit Organizations
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检查宗教背景与非营利组织捐赠之间的关系
DOI：
10.1093/esr/jcu064
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2014
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Una O Osili
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作者：
Pamala Wiepking;R. Bekkers;Una O Osili
为什么宗教团体和更多宗教国家的公民把钱捐给慈善事业？在这篇文章中，我们的目标是从理论和经验上解开宗教成分对各国非营利组织捐赠的影响。基于社会学、社会心理学和经济学的理论和研究，我们提出了关于宗教和世俗慈善捐赠中个体和背景层面差异的假设。我们使用欧洲社会调查的数据（包括21个欧洲国家）以及美国的匹配数据（N1 = 41，314; N2 = 22）通过多水平分析来测试我们的假设。结果表明，国家一级的虔诚度与参与宗教或世俗捐赠之间没有关系。我们确实发现，宗教异质性较高的国家的公民更有可能从事宗教捐赠，而不是世俗捐赠。我们测试两种解释之间的关系给予和宗教异质性。我们发现支持少数假设，属于宗教少数群体的人有更高的可能性给予，但不支持群体规模假设，即人们所属的宗教教派的相对规模减少了他们参与慈善捐赠。
Why do citizens in religious groups and more religious countries give money to charitable causes? In this article we aim to theoretically and empirically unravel the influence of religious composition on giving to non-profit organizations across countries. Building on theories and research in sociology, social psychology, and economics we formulate hypotheses about individual- and contextual-level differences in engagement in religious and secular charitable giving. We test our hypotheses with multi-level analyses using data from the European Social Survey that include 21 European countries complemented with matching data from the United States (N1 = 41,314; N2 = 22). The results show no relationship between country-level devoutness and engagement in religious or secular giving. We do find that citizens in countries with a higher level of religious heterogeneity are more likely to engage in religious giving but not secular giving. We test two explanations for the relationship between giving and religious heterogeneity. We find support for the minority hypothesis that people belonging to a religious minority have a higher likelihood of giving but not for the group size hypothesis that the relative size of the religious denomination to which people belong to decreases their engagement in charitable giving.