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While Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone (2000) highlighted the notion of volunteerism, little attention has been paid to religion's role in generating social capita

What is the glue of society? Which forms of sociability help to overcome social needs and poverty? The role of religion and religious institutions are often exp

With the departure of European Muslims to the “Islamic State” and a wave of terrorist attacks in Europe in recent years, the questions of why and how indivi

This volume includes a wide range of papers that explore individual and institutional aspects of religion from a social-science perspective. The special section

The first interdisciplinary work to examine "social capital" in a single city.