The Impact of Civic and Religious Social Capital on the Antisocial Attitudes of the Youth: A Multi-Level Cross-National Study

The main goal of this paper is to investigate whether some dimensions of civic and religious social capital are connected to antisocial attitudes of the youth. Based on the social capital theory and previous research, the author assumed that membership of voluntary associations as a dimension of civic social capital and attendance at religious services as a dimension of religious social capital, will be negatively correlated with antisocial attitudes of the youth. The integrated dataset of the last European Values Study and the World Values Survey waves were used as the sources of the research data. The dataset was comprised of 11,411 respondents who were younger than 25 years old from 79 countries. As hypothesized, at the individual level, attendance at religious services was negatively correlated with antisocial attitudes, whereas membership of voluntary associations was positively correlated with antisocial attitudes. At the country level, none of the hypothesized correlations were confirmed. A cross-level interaction between GDP and associational membership was found. The author explains the findings by evoking the special characteristics of religious social capital and its strength in building moral obligations and by suggesting possible differences in incentives for joining voluntary associations in the countries with different levels of economic wealth.

Dose religious social capital affect farmland transactions? A spatial autoregressive analysis in Taiwan

This study aims to empirically determine whether social capital affects farmland transactions in Taiwan. It uses a geographic information system to link the village-level data of the largest national farmland survey with the village-level data of religious groups, which are the most widely distributed civil society organizations. The combined data are analyzed using a spatial self-retrogression model. After controlling for farmland spatial adjacency, an increase in social capital brought an increase in the percentage of active leased farmland and a drop in the percentage of fallow farmland. Analysis of the 2015 cross-sectional data revealed that social capital was strongly conducive to the efficient allocation of farmland resources. While belong to irrigation associations can help to allocate farmland resources (as expected), this allocation is more greatly facilitated by the combination of religion and other traditions. Social capital in Taiwan helped to reduce the density of abandoned farmland, especially Daoist temples in religious communities. This study also used panel data to examine changes in within-village farmland tenancy rates. This analysis found that the identified effects of social capital may decline over time.

Social Capital and the Church: Engaging Virtually for the Sake of the World

Today’s dramatically reconfigured world has created opportunities for unprecedented types of social interaction and engagement in missions. Amid economic, environmental, and pandemic crises, it is incumbent to critically assess the various alternatives available to further God’s mission on earth. This article explores the concept of social capital, seeking to offer a framework by which to understand and embrace the opportunities hidden behind virtual platforms of social engagement. This article also considers trends in the approaches of religious social capital, seeking to gain a deeper understanding of the dynamics involved and of the implications for contemporary missions.

The Leader’s Role in Building Religious Social Capital: A Religious Regional Community Leader in Poland

This paper analyses the religious and social efforts of Bishop Ignacy Tokarczuk in order to identify his role in the process of generating religious social capital. The research was based on an analysis of available sources and in particular published texts on the Bishop’s pastoral work. It demonstrates that during the difficult times of the communist era, the Bishop of Przemyśl was an unquestioned leader of local communities, who used religious resources to build religious social capital. Bishop Tokarczuk skilfully balanced Catholic bottom-up initiatives and activated local religious communities. His religious and social efforts prepared the ground for building a civil society. The results of Bishop’s social and religious work, which priests and lay Catholics also became involved in were impressive.

Teungku Dayah Agency and Religious Social Capital on Drug Eradication in Aceh, Indonesia

This article examines the success of religious social capital and the agency of teungku dayah (Islamic scholars who belong to traditional religious school) in the collective drug eradication movement in Ujong Pacu, Lhokseumawe-Aceh, Indonesia. The role of religious social capital in combating the drugs market in global drug policy has been less studied. This study provides a quite different view from most scholars who work for combating drug dealers by engaging participation of religious communities in rural society. The agency of teungku dayah succeeded in mobilizing the villagers due to the social capital that bonded the community based on religious ties. The article used live-in method, observation, in-depth and interviews to build a sociological imagination about the patterns of social practice of the people who become the subject of the research. The researchers lived in one of the villager’s houses, participated in their discussions, listened to the gossip, worshipped with them and were involved in certain jobs carried out by the community members who targeted informants. Using religious social capital, this article argues that teungku dayah effectively used the social and religious capital of the Ujong Pacu community to conduct drug eradication. Religious social capital has strong ties in unifying elements of the people in the same religion, moreover it becomes an energy that keeps motivating the community to run anti-drugs movement and driving out the drug addicts in Ujong Pacu, Lhokseumawe-Aceh.

Social Capital, Religious Social Capital and the Missing Element of Religious Ritual

This article was written to contribute towards developing a suitable conceptual framework for meeting the overarching research aim of developing a more profound empirically informed interpretation of the manner and extent to which religious ritual could be valued as a source of social capital formation in the South African context. With this in mind, the article first explores the concept of social capital in the light of the threefold distinction between bonding, bridging and linking forms of social capital. Secondly, from the vantage point of such exploration the connection with religion is made more pointedly. By tapping into the more recently invented notion of religious social capital, the article shows how this concept is today used meaningfully to advance a twofold perspective: on religion as a special repository of social capital, but also on the limitations of religion and its institutions in meeting the social capital needs of communities and the wider society. Finally, from the viewpoint of eliciting important conceptual value from the notion of religious social capital, the case of religious ritual as a very necessary yet untapped element in the contemporary research focus on religion and social capital formation is presented. In particular, an argument about religious ritual as the consistently missing element in this research focus is put forward and given greater substance through the identification of two pointers from the literature that can be deemed useful in starting to address this lacuna.

Peran Modal Sosial, Kereligian, dan Perilaku Moral dalam Membentuk Kinerja Usaha Mikro dan Kecil dengan Aspek Demografi Sebagai Variabel Pengendali

This study was motivated by the presence of non-financial aspects such as morality, religious, and the forms of social capital that can be applied as the important things in the increased competitiveness within the MSE. Increased competitiveness and encouraging impact on promoted business performance. Business performance can be viewed from two perspectives, namely the success of the business and entrepreneur performance. To that end, the study aims to describe: (1) The dimensions of social capital are associated with moral behavior, (2) frequency of participation rate religious that produce social capital level, (3) Effect of religious and capital dimensions social to moral behavior by demographics (gender, age) as a control variable, and (4) the effect of religious, social capital dimensions, and moral behavior on performance of SMEs. The research population was the MSEs in some industries who live in Medan city. They were food and beverage industry, the fashion industry, textile industry and textile products, handicrafts and goods from the industrial arts, industrial furniture, as well as pottery and decorative ceramics industry. Sampling technique in this study was conducted in 2 phases (two stage sampling). The gathering data in this study used field survey techniques directly by visiting the respondent. Based on calculated statistically showed that there was a significant relationship between the social capital dimensions and moral behavior. The entries of religious variables into the influence of social capital on moral behavior that controlled by the demographic factors, showed that only confidence and share your view variables have no relation to moral behavior. Related on the successful and business performance aspects, the empathy variable was a variable that perceived by SMEs actors can increase their business success and their business performance.This study was motivated by the presence of non-financial aspects such as morality, religious, and the forms of social capital that can be applied as the important things in the increased competitiveness within the MSE. Increased competitiveness and encouraging impact on promoted business performance. Business performance can be viewed from two perspectives, namely the success of the business and entrepreneur performance. To that end, the study aims to describe: (1) The dimensions of social capital are associated with moral behavior, (2) frequency of participation rate religious that produce social capital level, (3) Effect of religious and capital dimensions social to moral behavior by demographics (gender, age) as a control variable, and (4) the effect of religious, social capital dimensions, and moral behavior on performance of SMEs. The research population was the MSEs in some industries who live in Medan city. They were food and beverage industry, the fashion industry, textile industry and textile products, handicrafts and goods from the industrial arts, industrial furniture, as well as pottery and decorative ceramics industry. Sampling technique in this study was conducted in 2 phases (two stage sampling). The gathering data in this study used field survey techniques directly by visiting the respondent. Based on calculated statistically showed that there was a significant relationship between the social capital dimensions and moral behavior. The entries of religious variables into the influence of social capital on moral behavior that controlled by the demographic factors, showed that only confidence and share your view variables have no relation to moral behavior. Related on the successful and business performance aspects, the empathy variable was a variable that perceived by SMEs actors can increase their business success and their business performance.