Religion and Volunteering

Lesley Hustinx is assistant professor at the Department of Sociology of Ghent UniversityJohan Von Essen is Doctor of Divinity and Researcher at the Institute for Civil Society Studies, Ersta Sköndal University CollegeJacques Haers is director of academic affairs at the University Centre Saint-Ignatius AntwerpSara Mels is project-coordinator at the University Centre Saint-Ignatius Antwerp

• Chapter 1. Religion and volunteering: Complex, contested and ambiguous relationships.- Chapter 2. Christian calling and volunteering.- Chapter 3. If I am only for myself, who am I? Volunteering and righteousness in Judaism.- Chapter 4. Philanthropic virtue.- Chapter 5. Religiosity and formal volunteering in global perspective.- Chapter 6. A cross-national examination of motivation to volunteer: Religious context, national value patterns, and nonprofit regimes.- Chapter 7. Volunteering among church attendees in Australia: Individual and collective dimensions.- Chapter 8. Lost and found in secularization: A religious perspective on the meaning of volunteering.- Chapter 9. Making church happen: Architectural methods to transform Flanders’ parish churches into civic collectives.- Chapter 10. Restorative justice and volunteering in a secular age.- Chapter 11. Short-Term Mission Voluntarism and the Post-secular Imaginary.- Chapter 12. Religion and social solidarity: A pragmatist approach.- Chapter 13. “Your prayer moves God”: On the relation between voluntarism, the emergent Charismatic movement in Beirut and social capital.- Chapter 14. Faith-based organizations and civic engagement in Egypt: Can FBOs be agents for change?.- Chapter 15. ‘Go back to our values’: Restoring symbolic hegemony through promoting ‘volunteering’.- Chapter 16. Volunteering in religious communities: What does it bring to society? Calculating Social Yield.