Religious Institutions and Civic Engagement: A Test of Religion's Impact on Political Activism in Mexico

Hale, Christopher

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“…Prior comparative research in Latin America has mostly focused on the role of the Catholic Church as an institution (Gill ; Hagopian ; Hale ), the influence of religious parties in the political process (e.g., Christian democratic parties; Mainwaring and Scully ), or the effect of religion on individual political behavior, such as voting patterns (Smith ). As Boas and Smith () discuss, Catholics and Protestants do not seem to have consistent voting patterns, and the differences tend to vary across countries and time.…”

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“…Outside of the American politics literature, however, the focus on civic skills is often overlooked in favor of studies examining direct religious mobilization (but see McClendon and Riedl ) or cases in one country or localized region (e.g., Hale ; Rink ; Smith ; Trejo ). While much of this literature likewise focuses on religious affiliation, it predominantly assesses how different churches coordinate religious responses to public policy or other government activity through explicitly political means.…”

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Religious Engagement, Civic Skills, and Political Participation in Latin America

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Brockway

Cornejo³

2020

Scientific Study of Religion

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To what extent has the growth of Evangelicalism in Latin America contributed to political participation across the region? A number of scholars of religion and politics in the United States have suggested that Evangelicalism promotes the development of civic skills necessary for political engagement, while the Catholic Church, due to its hierarchical structure, provides fewer opportunities for skill acquisition. In this paper, we apply this debate to Latin America to test whether civic skills developed in Catholic and Protestant church activities lead to differential participation rates in 18 countries. We utilize the 2014 Pew Religion in Latin America survey to test these effects, and find that Protestant churches do indeed promote skill‐developing activities at higher rates, but that Catholics, when involved, are more likely to translate this religious participation into political action. We conclude that political scientists must better understand the organizational role of religion in promoting political engagement worldwide.

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Religious Engagement, Civic Skills, and Political Participation in Latin America

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Brockway

Cornejo³

2020

Scientific Study of Religion

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“…Second, although we focus on individuals, our study diverges from rational choice perspectives that give weight to individual level cost-benefit analyses, and stress the need for monitoring and sanctioning structures in order to prompt individuals to contribute to collective goods (Berman 2009; Hale 2015). Our work links with research that indicates that religious beliefs have a role in eliciting pro-social behavior (Preston, Ritter, and Hernandez 2010; Warner, Kılınç, Hale, Cohen, and Johnson 2015).…”

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“…Scholars drawing on economic theory develop micro-level explanations by shifting the focus to individuals in accounting for why they contribute to seemingly costly group activities. Their “economics of religion” analyses stress that the organizational structures of some religious groups create incentives and sanctioning mechanisms that elicit the desired behavior of contributing to collective goods (Berman 2009; Hale 2015; Iannaccone 1994). Although these scholars are concerned with the micro-foundations of social action, they base their explanations on the rational calculations of the relevant actors and mostly ignore the beliefs and pro-social inclinations of individuals.…”

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Micro-Foundations of Religion and Public Goods Provision: Belief, Belonging, and Giving in Catholicism and Islam

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Warner

2015

Politics and Religion

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While debates continue about the relationship between state-provided social welfare and religious charities, and whether organized religions are more capable of providing social welfare than is the public sector, less attention has focused on the question of what motivates religious adherents to contribute to the charitable work of their religions. In this article, we examine how adherents of Catholicism and Islam understand their generosity and its relationship to their faith. Through 218 semi-structured interviews with Catholics and Muslims in four cities in France, Ireland, Italy, and Turkey, we find systematic differences between the two religions. Catholics emphasize love of others and Muslims emphasize duty to God. We also find, contrary to expectations of the literature that emphasizes monitoring and sanctioning within groups to obtain cooperation, that Catholics and Muslims see their generosity as also motivated by the positive affect they feel towards their respective communities.

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“… 4. This argument builds on a growing body of scholarship examining how the structure of religious organizations affects the role of religion in social mobilization (Hale, 2015; Kurzman, 1998; Pfaff & Gill, 2006). …”

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Faith in Contention

Isaacs

2016

Comparative Political Studies

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What explains variation in the role of religion in ethnic conflict? Although conflict involving religion is often more violent and longer lasting than other forms of conflict, to date little research has examined the factors explaining the relevance of religion to conflict mobilization. Adopting a rational choice approach, I argue that religion is more likely to be a salient component of conflict when an ethnic group’s religious leaders face local incentives to compete over adherents. I test this approach using a multi-method research design that combines statistical analysis of original time-series data on the salience of religion in conflict with qualitative evidence drawn from the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Both types of analyses support the notion that competition among religious leaders can serve as a precursor to the mobilization of religious sentiment in conflict, which in turn exerts a tremendous influence on the intensity and duration of conflict.

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Religious Institutions and Civic Engagement: A Test of Religion's Impact on Political Activism in Mexico

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Religious Engagement, Civic Skills, and Political Participation in Latin America

Religious Engagement, Civic Skills, and Political Participation in Latin America

Micro-Foundations of Religion and Public Goods Provision: Belief, Belonging, and Giving in Catholicism and Islam

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