Religious Engagement and Social Capital in the Islamic Context

Social capital research has traditionally been conducted in western and Christian settings as a precursor of changes such as democratization and development. This paper focuses on Islamic religious engagement and its potential to foster social capital. The model presented here is designed to suggest whether the Islam's influence occurs through doctrinal channels, or through Islam's capacity to organize social structures. The analysis conducted is a linear regression model with measures of social capital as dependent variables and measures of religious engagement as independent variables. The analysis is conducted on data from the fourth wave of the World Values Survey. Results suggest that religious engagement and social capital have both belief and behavioral elements that should be treated as separate entities in quantitative research.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of North Texas

Year dc:date

2005

Author dc:creator

• Brigaitis, Peter

Contributors dc:contributor

• Booth, John A.
• Reban, Milan
• Smith, Donald Wiley

• Islam and civil society.
• Islam and state.
• Islam and politics.
• Social capital (Sociology) -- Religious aspects.
• religion
• social capital
• Islam
• social structures
• civil society

Statement dc:rights

• Public
• Copyright
• Brigaitis, Peter
• Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

oclc: 62099561
https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4788/
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OAI identifier oai:identifier

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