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While Robert Putnam'sBowling Alone(2000) highlighted the notion of volunteerism, little attention has been paid to religion's role in generating social capital - an ironic omission since religion constitutes the most common form of voluntary association in America today. Featuring essays by prominent social scientists, this is the first book-length systematic examination of the relationship between religion and social capital and what effects religious social capital has on democratic life in the United States.Smidt, Corwin E. is the author of 'Religion As Social Capital Producing the Common Good' with ISBN 9780918954855 and ISBN 0918954851.
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