Religion and Volunteering [electronic resource] : Complex, contested and ambiguous relationships / edited by Lesley Hustinx, Johan von Essen, Jacques Haers, Sara Mels.

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.