The impact of religion on social cohesion, social capital formation and social development in different cultural contexts
Subtitle: entering the field in international and interdisciplinary perspectives
By: Wilhelm Gräb, Lars Charbonnier (Eds.).
Series: Studien zu Religion und Kultur = -- Studies of religion and culture -- Band 4
Publisher: Lit Verlag
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Zürich; Berlin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9783643904645
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Religion and sociology; Social capital (Sociology); Religious aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: "Social cohesion" as the most important element in the process of social capital formation: what is it about with this term of an obviously positively accepted phenomenon?  -- Andreas Feige; title: Social capital in German Protestant churches: how can the idea of social capital be made utilizable for parishes?  -- Martin Horstmann; title: Does religious individualization lead to a lack of social cohesion? A German perspective  -- Lars Charbonnier, Wilhelm Gräb; title: The practice of prayer  -- F. Gerrit Immink; title: The impact of global religious transformation on social cohesion and social development in cultural contexts with specific reference to the South African context  -- R. Simangaliso Kumalo; title: Churches and the rising expectations in social welfare delivery: South Africa in an international comparative perspective  -- Ignatius Swart; title: Seeking a safe haven? The interaction between religious and social transformations within Dutch Reformed traditions in South Africa  -- Ian Nell, Johan Cilliers; title: Blessing, burning and burying: social capital formation in churches in South Africa  -- Marcel Barnard, Henry Mbaya, Cas Wepener; title: Global transformations, local confrontations, glocal variations: Christian-Muslim relations in Sub-Saharan Africa: segregation, coexistence, or cultural annihilation?  -- Klaus Hock; title: Describing global transformations of religion -- Andreas Feldtkeller.