Where's the Faith in Faith-based Organizations? Measures and Correlates of Religiosity in Faith-based Social

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Author	Ebaugh, Helen Rose Chafetz, Janet S.
Abstract	Organizational religiosity is analyzed with data from a national survey of faith-based social service coalitions (N = 656). Twenty-one items related to religious practices within these organizations result in three distinct factors: service religiosity, staff religiosity and organizational religiosity scales. Self-defined faith-based coalitions vary widely on all three. OLS analysis regressing 12 coalition attributes on the three scales demonstrates that the religiosity measures often relate to the predictor variables in different ways, although in two cases there is consistency. Government funding is inversely related to all three religiosity measures, and evangelism as a coalition goal is positively related to all three. Religiosity is a term that historically has been used to describe and measure variations in individuals ' religious commitments along more than a single dimension. The most extensive elaboration of the meaning and dimensions of individual religiosity occurred in the work of Glock and Stark (1965), who developed what became known as the "5-D " approach to religious commitment, including: ritual activities, ideology or belief, experience, knowledge of religious matters, and the consequential dimension. According to their conceptualization and
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