差序格局下的宗教信仰和信任 基于中国十城市的经验数据

Religious Faith and Trust in the Differentiated Model of Association: The Empirical Evidence from 10 Cities in China

目前学界对宗教与信任关系的研究尚未达成一致意见。基于中国10个城市的调查数据,本研究分析了宗教信仰对社会化信任、一般化信任和差序格局结构中不同半径群体信任的影响。研究发现,1.宗教对信任尤其是社会化信任具有显著的正向影响;2.宗教对信任的影响随着差序格局半径的增加而增加;3.宗教对信任的作用机制主要是信仰效应而非组织效应,此发现部分解释了宗教与信任关系研究结论的矛盾性。

At present, researchers have not reached a consensus on the relationship between religion and trust. Based on the data from 10 Chinese cities, this study analyzed the impact of religious faith on social trust, general trust, and trust of groups along different radiuses in the differentiated model of association. The study had following findings： （1） religion had significant positive effects on trust, especially on social trust; （2） the effects of religion on trust got stronger when the radius in the differentiated model of association became longer; and （3） the mechanism of religion＇ s function on trust was mainly in its faith effect rather than organizational effect, which partly explained the contradiction in the current conclusions about the relationships between religion and trust.