caa a22 4500 606151664 CHVBK 20210128100545.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11266-013-9431-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11266-013-9431-0 Volunteering and Country-Level Religiosity: Evidence from the European Union [Elektronische Daten] [Lionel Prouteau, Boguslawa Sardinha] Research on volunteering has emphasized the positive role played by individual religiosity on this type of civic engagement. There are fewer studies on the relation between contextual religiosity and volunteer work. Several of them have concluded that the higher the macro-contextual religiosity, the higher the propensity to get involved in volunteering. Thereby, researchers might be inclined to conclude that secularization is a threat to this social participation. This article shows that such a conclusion is unfounded. From a data set including the 27 countries of the European Union and using a multilevel analysis to control for the compositional effects of the national sample, we obtain a negative correlation between macro-contextual religiosity and volunteering. From these results, we suggest that the relationship between volunteering and contextual religiosity cannot be considered as deterministic but it has to be comprehended in a more global cultural context. International Society for Third-Sector Research and The Johns Hopkins University, 2013 Volunteering nationallicence Civic engagement nationallicence Religiosity nationallicence Secularization nationallicence Prouteau Lionel LEMNA (Laboratoire d'économie et de management de Nantes Atlantique), Institut d'économie et de management de Nantes - IAE, University of Nantes, Chemin de la Censive du Tertre, BP 52231, 44313, Nantes Cedex 3, France aut Sardinha Boguslawa Socius - Research Centre in Economic and Organizational Sociology, Polytechnic Institute of Setubal, Campus do IPS, Estefanilha, 2910-503, Setúbal, Portugal aut VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 26/1(2015-02-01), 242-266 0957-8765 26:1<242 2015 26 11266 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-013-9431-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-013-9431-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Prouteau Lionel LEMNA (Laboratoire d'économie et de management de Nantes Atlantique), Institut d'économie et de management de Nantes - IAE, University of Nantes, Chemin de la Censive du Tertre, BP 52231, 44313, Nantes Cedex 3, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Sardinha Boguslawa Socius - Research Centre in Economic and Organizational Sociology, Polytechnic Institute of Setubal, Campus do IPS, Estefanilha, 2910-503, Setúbal, Portugal aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 26/1(2015-02-01), 242-266 0957-8765 26:1<242 2015 26 11266