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Gender, Religion, Social Capital and Political Participation
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The paper’s focus is religious volunteerism as an element of social capital and driver of political participation among women and addresses the competing assessments made of it by the social capital and feminist literatures. Women’s greater rates of participation in religious organizations are well documented. Also well understood is their stronger religiosity which is tied to their traditional roles as guardians of morality (particularly for children) and which exerts an influence on their political opinions. This paper adds to our knowledge of this dimension of women’s lives by evaluating the role that religious volunteerism plays, particularly as it relates to the private and public benefits and bridging and bonding concepts within the social capital literature, when compared to other forms of volunteerism. Using the 2000 National Survey of Giving, Volunteering and Participating, the paper argues that significant benefits derive from women’s religious volunteering but that this occurs within a setting that emphasizes women’s traditional gender roles.
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| | Authors: O'Neill, Brenda. |
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The paper’s focus is religious volunteerism as an element of social capital and driver of political
participation among women and addresses the competing assessments made of it by the social
capital and feminist literatures. Women’s greater rates of participation in religious organizations
are well documented. Also well understood is their stronger religiosity which is tied to their
traditional roles as guardians of morality (particularly for children) and which exerts an influence
on their political opinions. This paper adds to our knowledge of this dimension of women’s lives
by evaluating the role that religious volunteerism plays, particularly as it relates to the private and
public benefits and bridging and bonding concepts within the social capital literature, when
compared to other forms of volunteerism. Using the 2000 National Survey of Giving,
Volunteering and Participating, the paper argues that significant benefits derive from women’s
religious volunteering but that this occurs within a setting that emphasizes women’s traditional
gender roles.
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