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May 22, 2024 · A new publication that I have written for Sutherland Institute, ”What Good Does Religion Do?” shows the overwhelming evidence that religion is in fact a net positive for society. The first in a series of publications on the social benefits of religion, this paper describes how churches, other religious organizations and individual people of ...
Dec 18, 2006 · Over the past decade, considerable research has emerged that demonstrates the benefits of religious practice within society.[1] Religious practice promotes the well-being of individuals, families ...
- Elizabeth A. Clark
- The Impact of Religion and Religious Organizations
- III. BAD RELIGION AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
- VALUE OF RELIGION
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Elizabeth A. Clark* Legal scholars often see religion as a mere private preference, choice, value, or identity with no more meaning or positive social impact than any other preference, choice, value, or identity. If anything, religion’s negative impacts are often highlighted. For example, a focus on the harms of religion often underlies contemporar...
While the positive impact of religion for individuals, families, and communities is extensively documented, it is also important to recognize the negative impact that religious individuals and faith communities have had. As suggested in the previous sections, religion’s power has been wielded for good and ill. Religion is a paradox. Many of the s...
So often in contemporary discourse, unnecessary tensions between religious freedom and nondiscrimination can obscure the value of religion and religious freedom. As the studies and theories presented in this Article overwhelmingly demonstrate, religious practice, belief, and membership are linked to a host of individual, familial, and societal bene...
Jun 26, 2018 · These benefits include, for instance, the services that religious institutions provide for the poor, the personal and communal meaning people from all classes derive from religion, and the fact ...
- Megan Rogers, Mary Ellen Konieczny
- 2018
Jan 31, 2019 · Religion may benefit psychological well-being because it encourages supernatural beliefs that can help people deal with stress. 15 Social psychologists identify “stress buffering” mechanisms, such as a perceived connection with the divine, as key ways people may deal with difficult life events. 16 And religious meaning may help people manage suffering, both in their lives and in the lives ...
May 21, 2024 · In fact, those who are not affiliated with a church are more likely to interact with religious organizations and people of faith through social services rather than worship services. Sutherland’s new publication catalogs some important examples of how religious groups and those who belong to them provide important services not only to their own adherents but to their neighbors.
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Apr 12, 2016 · Highly religious Americans are happier and more involved with family but are no more likely to exercise, recycle or make socially conscious consumer choices. A new Pew Research Center study of the ways religion influences the daily lives of Americans finds that people who are highly religious are more engaged with their extended families, more ...
