AbstractsSocial Sciences

This study examines volunteerism in Indic faith based voluntary newlineorganisations The thesis contains eight chapters The first chapter consists of newlinethe theoretical framework of the study The theoretical framework has been newlineconstructed by concepts of civil society and individual and institutional actors newlinetherein social capital volunteerism as a dimension of individual actors newlinevoluntary organisations as institutional actors and the associational culture as newlinemobilising social capita1 Faith based voluntary organisations as a distinctive newlinetypology have been explored in depth with its multiple nuances faith being newlinethe prime arena of deliberation The definitions and concepts have been linked newlineto knit the theoretical framework in the form of first and second order links%%%References p.350 - 400 Appendices p.343 - 349