Present-day individuals are in an exciting way free from the cohension of traditions and traditional social networks, but they may also be more tied to new kinds of networks and bonds. Volunteering offers a fascinating means of exploring these polarities. This study rises to the challenge of understanding volunteering in the dynamic interplay between social independence and dependence, particularly in relation to social ties and religiosity. What is happening to church volunteering in the time of the individualistic ehtos? The book consist off four articles and an introductory essay. The articles pose five spesific questions. How has the status of the church altered during the 20th century, and what are the particular effects of the recession relevant? How indeed does church volunteering promote social cohesion? What characterizes the religiosity, altruistic willingness and social ties of chuch social work volunteers? What motives volunteers to engage utilize secularization, social capital, and motivation theories to answer these questions. The introductory essay brings together the findings in the articles and uses them in answering two stimulating questions of late modernity: whom volunteering bonds and why, and whether it bonds society. The overall analytical and methodological of the study are creative and innovative. The study provides a more diverse picture of the linkage between faith and volunteering than most previous work. The discussion of the results includes thoughtproving themes such as whether there is value in the social capital concept, and why Finns seem so altruistic as volunteers