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Utah scores lowest in the nation for nonprofessional organizations and near the bottom for professional organizations.
For Garrett, this raises the question of whether the LDS Church displaces other forms of social capital, other ways people might come together? “Utah and Vermont both rank very high in social capital,” said Garrett, “but Utah is top in religiosity and Vermont is bottom. Vermont is top in nonprofessional associations and Utah is the lowest.”“Here in New Hampshire and Vermont, everything is civic,” she said. “Every time I turn around there’s a community choir concert or chamber orchestra at the community center, and you just don’t see that around every corner in St. George.
If not, Putnam sees it as only bonding social capital driving Utah’s high ranking. “This would mean to be non-Mormon in Utah is to be on the outside, to be excluded.”Putnam wondered if Utah’s two senators might be used as an analogy. “[Mitt] Romney is a political bridger,” said Putnam, and while noting that he likes Mike Lee personally, “he’s obviously stridently partisan.
Garrett suggested that it may not be that simple. She sees in recent years something of a “battle for the soul of the faith” between more cosmopolitan, progressive Latter-day Saints and more insular, less-tolerant members of the church.
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