Opinion: Church-Related Social Ties Boost Giving by Faithful – Philanthropy Today - Blogs - The Chronicle of Philanthropy: The cohesive social connections that form within congregations, rather than faith itself or theological teachings, drive the higher rates at which religious people donate to charity, a political scientist asserts in a Time magazine opinion column.
David E. Campbell, a Notre Dame professor and co-author of American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us, says research for the book turned up no evidence linking belief per se with giving. Rather, he writes, “the ‘secret ingredient’ for charitable giving among religious Am
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