Churches Are Generally Ignored in Contemporary Voluntary Action Research: Causes and Consequences
Contemporary research and theory on voluntary action--both focus on individual participation and on voluntary associations as organizations--generally ignore religion and religious institutions, at least in the United States and usually elsewhere as well. The causes of this situation are to be found...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage Publications
1983
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Review of religious research
Year: 1983, Volume: 24, Issue: 4, Pages: 295-303 |
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| Summary: | Contemporary research and theory on voluntary action--both focus on individual participation and on voluntary associations as organizations--generally ignore religion and religious institutions, at least in the United States and usually elsewhere as well. The causes of this situation are to be found in historical tendencies for social science research on the sacred and the secular to be very clearly separated and in contemporary tendencies for social science research to maintain strong disciplinary and topical specialization boundaries. The negative consequences are both intellectual and practical. Intellectually, both religious research and voluntary action research suffer from and are stunted in their growth by their mutual lack of cross-fertilization of concepts and generalizations. Practically, religious institutions, their participants, and their leaders suffer by not being able to utilize voluntary action research knowledge and its practical application as fully as would be optimal in their everyday activities. Similarly, other types of voluntary associations are deprived of practically useful techniques and knowledge accumulated by religious researchers and practitioners/leaders of the religious community. Ecumenism is needed not only among religions but also between related research areas such as religious research and voluntary action research. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-4866 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review of religious research
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3511006 |