id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt ns064457m6c Matthew T. Loveland Civic Congregations: Congregational Dynamics and Individual Civic Involvement 2006 .txt text/plain 308 11 10 I operationalize civic involvement from an action theory perspective and call for a more general understanding of civic engagement as collectively sustained, goal oriented, civic culture maintaining social action. The dissertation calls specifically for further consideration of the relationship between congregations and individual civic participation, and generally for common use of contextual modeling to adequately portray the role of religion in social life. cache/ns064457m6c.txt txt/ns064457m6c.txt