This study examines whether religion's effect on volunteering spills over to nonreligious
individuals through personal ties between religious and nonreligious individuals. We use …

We look at the effect of importance of religion in daily life on social trust, defined as the share
of a population that thinks that people in general can be trusted. We make use of new data …

Background Trust is one of the key driving forces behind human action and an important
factor in shaping human interaction. Trust can improve economic growth, political and civic …

Dieser Beitrag widmet sich der systematischen empirischen Analyse des Einflusses von
Religion auf Sozialkapital in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Als abhängige Variablen …

This chapter presents European Social Survey data to test the aforementioned relations
within a complete explanatory model in more than 20 European countries. It focuses on both …

Die Rolle der Religion für die Entstehung sozialen Kapitals–dh zivilgesellschaftliche
Netzwerke und soziales Vertrauen–ist sowohl theoretisch als auch empirisch hoch …

Das Milizprinzip gilt als unverzichtbares Wesensmerkmal der Schweizer
Beteiligungsdemokratie. Allerdings wird seit geraumer Zeit landauf landab die schleichende …

Average adult height is an indicator of population health and a marker of socioeconomic
inequalities. This study aimed to assess how socioeconomic differences affect …

Using the latest wave of the Canadian Ethnic Diversity Survey, I investigate whether
religious identity and religious intensity associate with the degree to which people trust …

We look at the effect of religiosity on social trust, defined as the share of a population that
thinks that people in general can be trusted. This is important since social trust is related to …