Christian Smith (ed.)

Disruptive Religion

The Force of Faith in Social Movement Activism
Herausgeber: Smith, Christian

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Produktbeschreibung

Religion has long played a central role in many social and political movements. Solidarity in Poland, anti-apartheid in South Africa, Operation Rescue in the United States--each of these movements is driven by the energy and sustained by the commitment of many individuals and organizations whose ideologies are shaped and powered by religious faith. In many cases, religious resources and motives serve as crucial variables explaining the emergence of entire social movements. Despite the crucial role of religion in most societies, this religious activism remains largely uninvestigated. Disruptive Religion intends to fill this void by analyzing contemporary social movements which are driven by people and organizations of faith. Upon a firm base of empirical evidence, these essays also address many theoretical issues arising in the study of social movements and disruptive politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 371g
• ISBN-13: 9780415914055
• ISBN-10: 0415914051
• Artikelnr.: 21461215

Autorenporträt

Christian Smith

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction, Christian Smith; Part 1 Pre-Existent Organizations and
Leadership; Chapter 1 The Black Church in the Civil Rights Movement: the
SCLC as the Decentralized, Radical Arm of the Black Church, Aldon Morris;
Chapter 2 Radical Islamic Insurgency in the Iranian Revolution of
1978-1979, M. M. Salehi; Part 2 Religious Ritual and Insurgent
Consciousness; Chapter 3 Pastoral Mobilization and Contention: The
Religious Foundations of the Solidarity Movement in Poland, Maryjane Osa;
Chapter 4 Religious Rituals of Resistance and Class Consciousness in
Bolivian Tin-Mining Communities, June Nash; Part 3 Mobilization and
Repression; Chapter 5 Popular Religion, Protest, and Revolt: The Emergence
of Political Insurgency in the Nicaraguan and Salvadoran Churches of the
1960s-80s, Sharon Erickson Nepstad; Chapter 6 Church Leadership, State
Repression, and the "Spiral of Involvement" in the South African Anti-aPart
heid Movement, 1983-1990, Tristan Anne Borer; Part 4 Symbolic Worlds and
Activist Identity; Chapter 7 For God and the Fatherland: Protestant
Symbolic Worlds and the Rise of German National Socialism, DavidSikkink,
MarkRegnerus; Chapter 8 Many are Called but Few Obey: Ideological
Commitment and Activism in Operation Rescue, Rhys H.Williams,
JeffreyBlackburn; Part 5 Religious Ideology and Disruptive Tactics; Chapter
9 Popular Christianity and Political Extremism in the United States,
JamesAho; Chapter 10 A Comparison of the Political Behavior of Faith-Based
and Secular Peace Groups, RonPagnucco;