ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses effect of multiple organizational involvement by analyzing the relationship between church organizational activism and union activism. It determines if and how church involvement of Tennessee State Employees Association members affects their union participation. Church involvement is indicated by two formal organizational involvements. First, church attendance is measured by self-reported frequency of religious service attendance in the previous year. The second is activism in church affiliated organizations. The chapter examines various types of church activism separately to assess their similarity in terms of social correlates and their relationships with various measures of union participation. The ideology of state employee unionism and social integration into the union is the predictor of union activists, where as the ideology of working class unionism, non-militancy, non-integration into the union and the job predicted active church involvement. The regression analysis depicts the profile of church activists as those who regard themselves as religious, who are active in voluntary organizations and in the union.
