Protestant Missionaries Are Associated With Reduced Community Cohesion

IF 2.4 1区哲学 0 RELIGION

Sociology of Religion Pub Date : 2021-11-10 DOI:10.1093/socrel/srab032

Anselm Hager

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Abstract

Do Protestant missionaries affect community cohesion? This study puts forth two mechanisms that link missionaries to trusting, cooperative community life: pro-social preferences and social networks. On the one hand, Protestant missionaries espouse charity, and they establish regular venues of social interaction. On the other hand, Protestant missionaries propagate an individualist faith, and they provide an identity along which communities may separate. The effect of Protestant missionaries on community cohesion is thus unclear. To make headway on these conflicting theoretical predictions, we study variation in missionary activity in southeastern Peru. We document that villages with Protestant missions show lower levels of community cohesion compared to non-missionized, Catholic villages. We point to weakened networks as the most likely causal channel and show that effect sizes are particularly large among Pentecostal missionaries.

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新教传教士与降低社区凝聚力有关

新教传教士影响社区凝聚力吗？这项研究提出了两种将传教士与信任、合作的社区生活联系起来的机制：亲社会的偏好和社交网络。一方面，新教传教士支持慈善事业，他们建立了定期的社交场所。另一方面，新教传教士传播个人主义信仰，他们提供了一种身份认同，社区可以据此分离。因此，新教传教士对社区凝聚力的影响尚不清楚。为了在这些相互矛盾的理论预测上取得进展，我们研究了秘鲁东南部传教活动的变化。我们记录到，与未传教的天主教村庄相比，有新教使命的村庄表现出较低的社区凝聚力。我们指出，弱化的网络是最有可能的因果渠道，并表明五旬节派传教士的影响规模特别大。

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7.50

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6.50%

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