{"id":7738,"date":"2009-05-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/05\/21\/study-faith-based-friendships-create-more-engaged-citizens\/"},"modified":"2009-05-21T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-21T12:00:00","slug":"study-faith-based-friendships-create-more-engaged-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/05\/21\/study-faith-based-friendships-create-more-engaged-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: Faith-Based Friendships Create More Engaged Citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/2009\/05\/religious-people-make-better-c.php\">blog.beliefnet.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">USA, May 13, 2009: A study has shown that people who form friendships through their religion are three to four times more likely than others to be better citizens &#8212; in terms of secular participation in the community and the government.<\/p>\n<p>Harvard University professor Robert Putnam and University of Notre Dame scholar David Campbell discussed their study at a recent conference hosted by the Pew Forum on Religion &#038; Public Life. They believe the link between religion and civic activism is causal, since they observed that people who hadn&#8217;t attended church became more engaged after they did.<\/p>\n<p>This is because of the relationships people make in their churches, mosques, synagogues and temples that draw them into community activism. &#8220;Being asked to do something by a member of your congregation is different from being asked to do something by a member of your bowling league,&#8221; Putnam said.<\/p>\n<p>But Putnam says young Americans are &#8220;vastly more secular&#8221; than their elders, because they&#8217;re turned off by how political American religion has become. Religion in America&#8211;particularly evangelicalism&#8211;began to drop off in the 1990s after the political ascendance of the religious right, according to Putnam and Campbell.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>blog.beliefnet.com USA, May 13, 2009: A study has shown that people who form friendships through their religion are three to,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}