Religion as Social Capital
Subtitle: Producing the Common Good
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Published: April 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780918954855
Subjects: Religious social & pastoral thought & activity; Social & cultural anthropology; Social captial (Sociology); Religion; Political Science; Sociology; United States; Politics/International Relations; USA; Social conditions; Sociology of Religion; Religion & Spirituality; General; Religious aspects; Social capital (Sociology)
First sentence: Culture plays a central role in political life because political institutions do not operate in a vacuum, isolated and cut off from the society of which they are a part.