The religious sector's presence in local community development
The religious sector's presence in local community development
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DOI：
10.1177/0739456x07299948
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发表时间：
2007-09-01
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
Botchwey, Nisha D.
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作者：
Botchwey, Nisha D.
本文确定了在低收入城市社区从事服务提供的世俗社区组织、宗教集会和信仰组织之间的范围、服务提供和位置相似性或差异性。文献表明，宗教组织为社区提供了重要的社会服务，但在相同的地理背景下，宗教组织与世俗组织的比较却鲜为人知。本文采用定性和定量方法，结合GIS应用进行空间分析，调查费城北部宗教和世俗组织的数据，衡量宗教部门对当地社区发展的影响。这篇文章的结论是，宗教机构，特别是教会和基于信仰的组织，在他们的奉献、存在和位置上都有重要的社区存在，并为个人提供了大量的服务，因为他们在社区中作为“沉默的伙伴”运作，为美国城市的地方发展提供了重要的——尽管往往是看不见的——“机构资本”。
This article identifies the extent, service offerings, and location similarities or differences among secular community-based organizations, religious congregations, and faith-based organizations that engage in service delivery in low-income urban communities. The literature shows that religious organizations provide significant social services to communities, but little is known about how they compare to their secular counterparts within the same geographic context. Employing qualitative and quantitative approaches together with GIS applications for spatial analysis to survey data from religious and secular organizations in North Philadelphia, this article measures the influence of the religious sector in local community development. The article concludes that religious institutions, specifically congregations and faith-based organizations, have a significant community presence in their offerings, presence, and location and provide a substantial level of service to individuals in that they operate as "silent partners" within communities, providing important-although often unseen "institutional capital" to local development in urban America.