Faithin Omaha eBook Collection

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

This study explores the motivations for planned teenage pregnancy in England, based on 51 in-depth interviews undertaken in disadvantaged areas.

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

When Cuba’s centralized system for providing basic social services began to erode in the early 1990s, Christian and Afro-Cuban religious groups took on new so

This timely volume puts emphasis on the effect of social capital on everyday life: how the routines of daily life lead people to get involved in their communiti