Not a lonely crowd? Social connectedness, religious service attendance, and the spiritual but not religious
Not a lonely crowd? Social connectedness, religious service attendance, and the spiritual but not religious
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DOI：
10.1016/j.ssresearch.2016.01.006
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发表时间：
2016-05-01
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2.5
通讯作者：
Hastings, Orestes P.
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作者：
Hastings, Orestes P.
使用2006-2014年综合社会调查和2006-2012年美国生活研究的肖像，我发现社会联系的三个维度：社会互动频率、核心讨论网络规模和密切联系的数量，参加宗教服务的人比不参加宗教服务的人联系更多，但参加者和精神上的但不是宗教上的人之间几乎没有什么区别。差异中的差异和固定效应模型显示，几乎没有证据表明类别之间的切换与连通性的变化有关，其他模型显示，先前的社会连通性只能解释少量的未来切换。本文挑战的假设，即非宗教是一个同质的群体，缺乏通过宗教集会的社交网络提供的好处，并有什么意思是精神的研究，测量宗教和灵性，并了解正式组织在社会生活中的作用的影响。(C)2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.