Double Trouble. Distinctive Nature and Future Prospects of Religious Voluntary Associations : Vincentian Voluntary Groups in Italy: An Organizational Case Study in the Historical Neo-Institutional Perspective

Vincentian volunteers are lay Catholics who engage with the most disadvantaged as an act of free will without compensation. The study reveals the double nature of Vincentian volunteering. It is a religious movement where volunteers act in the charism of fraternal love and a non-profit non-government...

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Verfasser: Fonović, Ksenija
Weitere Beteiligte: Zimmer, Annette (Gutachter)
FB/Einrichtung:FB 06: Erziehungswissenschaft und Sozialwissenschaften
Dokumenttypen:Dissertation/Habilitation
Medientypen:Text
Erscheinungsdatum:2023
Publikation in MIAMI:16.06.2023
Datum der letzten Änderung:16.06.2023
Reihe:Wissenschaftliche Schriften der Universität Münster / Reihe VI, Bd. 33
Angaben zur Ausgabe:[Electronic ed.]
Schlagwörter:volunteering; values; association Freiwilligenarbeit; Wertvorstellungen; Vereinigungen
Fachgebiet (DDC):260: Kirchenorganisation, Sozialarbeit, Religionsausübung
300: Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
360: Soziale Probleme, Sozialdienste
Lizenz:CC BY-SA 4.0
Sprache:English
Hochschulschriftenvermerk:Münster (Westfalen), Univ., Diss., 2022
Version in anderer physikalischen Form:Auch im Buchhandel erhältlich: Double Trouble. Distinctive Nature and Future Prospects of Religious Voluntary Associations : Vincentian Voluntary Groups in Italy: An Organizational Case Study in the Historical Neo-Institutional Perspective / Ksenija Fonovic. – Hildesheim : Georg Olms Verlag, 2023. – ix, 402 S. (Wissenschaftliche Schriften der WWU Münster : Reihe VI ; Bd. 33), ISBN 978-3-487-16411-3, Preis: 48,00 EUR
Format:PDF-Dokument
ISBN:978-3-8405-0282-8
URN:urn:nbn:de:hbz:6-80069624730
Weitere Identifikatoren:DOI: 10.17879/80069624083
Permalink:https://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:6-80069624730
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Inhaltsverzeichnis:
  • Index of Figures ..... vii
  • Index of Tables ..... ix
  • Acknowledgements ..... 1
  • Chapter 1 Introduction. Why Should We Bother about Religious Volunteering? ..... 3
  • 1.1 Natality and Relevance of the Research ..... 3
  • 1.2 Research Questions ..... 9
  • 1.3 Overview of Contents ..... 15
  • Chapter 2 State of the Art. Conceptual Map and Gaps in Knowledge ..... 21
  • 2.1 Conceptualization of Voluntary Action ..... 22
  • 2.2 Conceptualization of Organized Volunteering ..... 26
  • 2.3 Landmarks of the Global Policy Framework ..... 30
  • 2.4 Universal Values of Voluntary Action ..... 32
  • 2.5 The Political Dimension of Voluntary Activity ..... 33
  • 2.6 Religion as Driver for Volunteering ..... 34
  • 2.7 The Volunteering Habitus ..... 36
  • 2.8 The Gender Dimension of the Volunteering Habitus ..... 37
  • 2.9 Embeddedness: Horizontal Context Dependency ..... 39
  • 2.10 Time Dimension: Vertical Context Dependency ..... 40
  • Chapter 3 Method and Methodologies. Research Strategy ..... 43
  • 3.1 Research Strategy ..... 43
  • 3.2 Theoretical Framework. Historical Neo-Institutionalism ..... 46
  • 3.3 Object of the Study: Religious Voluntary Associations ..... 49
  • 3.4 Method: Case Study ..... 54
  • 3.4.1 Choosing the Method ..... 54
  • 3.4.2 Choosing the Case ..... 55
  • 3.5 The Case: Vincentian Voluntary Groups (VVG) ..... 59
  • 3.6 Methods and Methodologies: An Array of Complementary Tools ..... 62
  • 3.6.1 Desk Research ..... 62
  • 3.6.2 Field Work: Participant Observation ..... 63
  • 3.6.3 Individual Interviews ..... 64
  • 3.6.4 Analyses ..... 66
  • 3.6.5 Voluntary Functions Inventory (VFI) Questionnaire Adaptation and Test ..... 66
  • Chapter 4 Results – Macro Level. Dual Nature of the Institutional Identity ..... 69
  • 4.1 Essential Traits of the Vincentian Institutional Identity ..... 69
  • 4.2 Institutional Ideology: Social Doctrine of the Catholic Church ..... 74
  • 4.3 Dual Nature: VVG at the Intersection of Strategic Reference Fields ..... 81
  • 4.4 Modern Renaissance Period: A Social Third Sector Voluntary Organization ..... 90
  • Chapter 5 Results – Micro Level. Volunteers: Institutional Identity in Practice ..... 101
  • 5.1 Personal Capitals. Social Core Re-actualized ..... 101
  • 5.2 Subjective Meanings ..... 106
  • 5.3 Individual Religiosity ..... 114
  • 5.3.1 Individual Religiosity: Conservative ..... 115
  • 5.3.2 Individual Religiosity: Progressive-spiritual ..... 118
  • 5.3.3 Individual Religiosity: Conventional ..... 122
  • 5.3.4 Individual Religiosity: Radical ..... 123
  • 5.3.5 Individual Religiosity: Critical ..... 124
  • 5.3.6 Individual Religiosity and Voluntary Functions ..... 124
  • Chapter 6 Results – Meso Level. Institutional Perspective on the Organizational Change ..... 127
  • 6.1 Modern Renaissance: Organizational Development and Institutional Identity ..... 127
  • 6.2 Post-modern Crisis: Conflict Lines Between Tradition and Modernity ..... 135
  • Chapter 7 Processes of Institutional Change ..... 147
  • 7.1 Displacement ..... 147
  • 7.2 Endogenous Factors and Dynamics ..... 151
  • 7.3 Exogenous Factors and Dynamics ..... 153
  • 7.3.1 Religious Field ..... 156
  • 7.3.2 Third Sector Field ..... 161
  • 7.4 Diverging Trajectories of Institutional Change ..... 166
  • Chapter 8 Discussion – Micro to Meso Level. Agentification as a Distinctive Function of Religious Voluntary Associations ..... 169
  • 8.1 Distinctive Nature of the Religious Voluntary Organization ..... 169
  • 8.2 Religious Voluntary Organization: Functions of the Small Group ..... 171
  • 8.3 Individual and Organizational Capital ..... 177
  • 8.4 Volunteering as Work ..... 183
  • 8.4.1 An Enlarged Conceptualization of Voluntary Work ..... 183
  • 8.4.2 The Values of Volunteering: Work and Understanding Functions ..... 187
  • 8.5 Drivers of Agentification: Entrepreneurship ..... 191
  • 8.6 Drivers of Agentification: Leadership ..... 194
  • Chapter 9 Agentification in the Capabilities Approach ..... 203
  • 9.1 Religious Voluntary Association as a Site of Capabilities Building ..... 203
  • 9.2 Agentification as Distinctive Function of Organized Volunteering ..... 205
  • 9.3 Affiliation Capability ..... 206
  • 9.4 The System of Capabilities ..... 210
  • 9.5 Relationship with Beneficiaries: Friendship in the Capabilities Approach ..... 213
  • 9.6 Encounter with Diversity ..... 216
  • Chapter 10 Discussion – Micro to Macro Level. Religious Voluntary Association as a Value System ..... 229
  • 10.1 Institutional Identity Dynamics: Vincentian Value Proposition of Love ..... 229
  • 10.2 Micro level – Bonding. Individual Religiosity: Life in the Love of Christ ..... 233
  • 10.3 Micro Level – Bridging. Fraternal Love: Friendship Approach ..... 240
  • 10.4 Meso Level. The Pivot Role of Religious Voluntary Associations ..... 246
  • 10.5 Meso to Macro Level Dynamics. Institutional Identity ..... 248
  • 10.6 Macro to Micro Level. Love as Value in the Public Sphere: Social Doctrine ..... 252
  • 10.7 Macro Level. Societal Impact: Rise in Normativity and Orders of Worth ..... 255
  • 10.8 The Political Nature of Faith-driven Organization-based Volunteering ..... 269
  • Chapter 11 Conclusions. Future Perspectives of Organization-based Volunteering of Religious Inspiration ..... 275
  • 11.1 Distinctive Nature and Functioning of Religious Voluntary Associations ..... 275
  • 11.2 Volunteering as a Political Stance ..... 287
  • 11.3 The Historical Predicament of Intermediary Corps ..... 295
  • 11.4 Avenues for Future Research ..... 302
  • References ..... 305
  • Appendix I: Historical Overview – The Making of VVG. Institutional Evolution of the Vincentian Volunteering ..... 321
  • I Institutional Identity of the Vincentian Voluntary Groups (VVG) ..... 321
  • I.i Saint Vincent de Paul: Identity and Values ..... 322
  • I.ii Saint Louise de Marillac: Role of Women ..... 326
  • I.iii The Vincentian Family Today ..... 330
  • II St. Vincent’s Conferences of Lay Volunteers: Profiling of the Institutional Specificity ..... 339
  • II.i The Origins of the Traditional Vincentian Lay Volunteering ..... 339
  • II.ii The Society of St. Vincent de Paul in Italy: Second Half of the 19th Century ..... 343
  • II.iii Ladies of Charity: Organizations of Lay Women Vincentian Volunteers ..... 347
  • II.iv Internal Dynamics and Public Positioning: 1st Half of the 20th Century ..... 352
  • II.v Institutional Specificity in the Religious Field ..... 364
  • III Vincentian Voluntary Groups (VVG): Organizational Context in the Modern Renaissance Period ..... 368
  • III.i From Ladies of Charity to Vincentian Voluntary Groups (VVG) ..... 369
  • III.ii Institutional Identity and Organizational Structure ..... 372
  • III.iii Dual Nature in Subsidiary Welfare ..... 384
  • III.iv Organizational Dimensions: Activities and Beneficiaries ..... 391
  • Appendix I: References ..... 396
  • Appendix II: VFI Questionnaire Adaptation – Clary et al. 1998 “Career” Voluntary Function Inventory Items Adapted to “Work” Function ..... 399
  • Appendix III: VFI Questionnaire – Adapted in “Career” Function (in Italian) ..... 400
  • Appendix IV: Interviews ..... 401
  • IV.i List of Volunteers quoted from in-depth Interviews: Code Name (Group, Gender, Age) ..... 401
  • IV.ii ..... 401
  • IV.iii ..... 402
  • IV.iv ..... 402
  • IV.v ..... 402.

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