Religion And Social Protest Movements

Author : Christian Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781136666100

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Disruptive Religion by Christian Smith Pdf

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.

Author : Tobin Miller Shearer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351592376

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Religion and Social Protest Movements by Tobin Miller Shearer Pdf

What role has religion played in social protest movements? This important book examines how activists have used religious resources such as liturgy, prayer, song and vestments with a focus on the following global case studies: The mid-twentieth century US civil rights movement. The late twentieth century antiabortion movement in the United States of America. The early twenty-first century water protectors’ movement at Standing Rock, North Dakota. Indian independence led by Mohandas Gandhi in the early 1930s. The Polish Solidarity movement of the 1980s. The South African anti-apartheid movement of the 1980s and 1990s. Prayer as a sacred act is usually associated with piety and pacifism; however, it can be argued that those who pray in public while protesting are more likely to encounter violence. Drawing on journalistic accounts, participant reflections, and secondary literature, Religion and Social Protest Movements offers both historical and theoretical perspectives on the persistent correlation of the use of public prayer with an increase in conflict and violence. This book is an important read for students and researchers in history and religious studies, and those in related fields such as sociology, African-American studies, and Native American studies.

Author : Peter Blickle,Hans-Christoph Rublack,Winfried Schulze
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000424508

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Religion, Politics and Social Protest by Peter Blickle,Hans-Christoph Rublack,Winfried Schulze Pdf

This book, first published in 1984, brings together three essays written by specialists in German history of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries whose important work is little known to English-speaking historians. Peter Blickle argues for a strong connection between the theology of the Reformation and the ideologies of the social protest movements of the period. Hans-Christoph Rublack takes a wider theme of the political and social norms in urban communities in the Holy Roman Empire and emphasises the ideas of justice, peace and unity held within the community despite the upheavals of revolution and protest. Winfried Schulze provides a comparative assessment of early modern peasant resistance within the Holy Roman Empire.

Author : Stephen A. Kent
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0815629230

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From Slogans to Mantras by Stephen A. Kent Pdf

Maintains that the failure of political activism led many former radicals to become involved in such groups as the Hare Krishnas, Scientology, Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church, the Jesus movement, and the Children of God, and argues that numerous activists turned from psychedelia and political activism to guru worship and spiritual quest both as a response to the failures of social protest and as a new means of achieving social change. [book cover].

Author : Warren S. Goldstein,Jean-Pierre Reed
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000583342

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Religion in Rebellions, Revolutions, and Social Movements by Warren S. Goldstein,Jean-Pierre Reed Pdf

Religion in Rebellions, Revolutions, and Social Movements demonstrates that, while religion is often a social force that maintains, if not legitimates, the sociopolitical order, it is also a decisive factor in economic, social, and political conflict. The book explores how and under what conditions religion functions as a progressive and/or reactionary force that compels people to challenge or protect social orders. The authors focus on the role that religion has played in peasant, slave, and plebeian rebellions; revolutions, including the Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Iranian; and modern social movements. In addition to these case studies, the book also contains theoretical chapters that explore the relationship religious thought has with the politics of liberation and oppression. It examines the institutional, organizational, ritualistic, discursive, ideological, and/or framing mechanisms that give religion its oppressive and liberating structures. Many scholars of religion continue very conventional modes of thinking, ignoring how religion has been—and continues to be—both a hegemonic and counterhegemonic force in conflict. This book looks at both sides of the equation. This international and interdisciplinary volume will be of interest to students and scholars in the fields of politics of religion, sociology of religion, religious studies, gender studies, and history.

Author : Jennifer L. Jefferis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135248314

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Religion and Political Violence by Jennifer L. Jefferis Pdf

This book uses the theory of social movements and first-hand interviews to create a new analysis of religiously motivated political violence in the modern world. Examining the movement to restore Sharia law to a dominant place in the Egyptian government, the movement to make abortion illegal in the United States, and the religious effort to secure territory in Israel, the author contends that religion becomes violent not because of ideology or political context alone, but because of the constantly evolving relationship between them. The ebb and flow of opportunities for political access ensures that secularization and religion, although polar opposites, depend on each other to define themselves. As a result, while their respective degrees of influence will inevitably undulate over time, both will remain a part of the political process for some time. Thus, a full understanding of both is critical to a meaningful understanding of the political process. Much work has been done to understand secular social movements as part of the political process, and consequentially researchers now know a great deal about the motivations, resources and timing of secular social movements. Considerably less research has been done in the field of religious social movements and this book fills that gap in the literature. This book will be of great interest to students of political violence, religion, sociology, and Politics and International Relations in general. Jennifer Jefferis is Assistant Professor in the Department of Government, Regent University, USA, and has a PhD in Political Science from Boston University.

Author : Roy Wallis
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : Religion and sociology
ISBN : 0903804387

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Salvation and Protest by Roy Wallis Pdf

Author : William Sims Bainbridge
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0415912024

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The Sociology of Religious Movements by William Sims Bainbridge Pdf

The Sociology of Religious Movements represents the culmination of the work begun in the award-winning The Future of Religion and A Theory of Religion, and explains religious movements in the context of political, cultural and social movements.

Author : James A. Beckford
Publisher : Bernan Press(PA)
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040573060

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New Religious Movements and Rapid Social Change by James A. Beckford Pdf

"The book shows how rapid social change gives rise to novel religious interpretations and how new religious movements, in turn, try to influence the process of change. This analysis is illustrated by studies of the advanced societies of North America and Europe, of Japan during the first phase of industrialization, and of countries and regions in the developing world. New religious movements are revealed as a normal aspect of social life and as critical indicators of social change. This is reflected in each movement's social composition, teachings, values, religious practices and organizational structures as well as their engagement in politics, business and their structuring of social relationships."--Publisher's description.

Author : Matthew T. Eggemeier,Peter Joseph Fritz,Karen V. Guth
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780823299775

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Religion, Protest, and Social Upheaval by Matthew T. Eggemeier,Peter Joseph Fritz,Karen V. Guth Pdf

Represents some of the best, cutting-edge thinking available on multiple forms of social upheaval and related grassroots movements. From the January 2017 Women’s March to the August 2017 events in Charlottesville and the 2020 protests for racial justice in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, social upheaval and protest have loomed large in the United States in recent years. The varied, sometimes conflicting role of religious believers, communities, and institutions in such events and movements calls for scholarly analysis. Arising from a conference held at the College of the Holy Cross in November 2017, Religion, Protest, and Social Upheaval gathers contributions from ten scholars in religious studies, theology and ethics, and gender studies—from seasoned experts to emerging voices—to illuminate this tumultuous era of history and the complex landscape of social action for economic, racial, political, and sexual and gender justice. The contributors consider the history of resistance to racial capitalist imperialism from W. E. B. Du Bois to today; the theological genealogy of the capitalist economic order, and Catholic theology’s growing concern with climate change; affect theory and the rise of white nationalism, theological aesthetics, and solidarity with migrants; differing U.S. Christian churches’ responses to the “revolutionary aesthetics” of the Black Lives Matter movement; Muslim migration and the postsecular character of Muslim labor organizing in the United States; shifts in moral reasoning and religiosity among U.S. women’s movements from the 1960s to today; and the intersection of heresy discourse and struggles for LGBTQ+ equality among Korean and Korean-American Protestants. With this pluralistic approach, Religion, Protest, and Social Upheaval offers a snapshot of scholarly religious responses to the crises and promises of the late 2010s and early 2020s. Representing the diverse coalitions of the religious left, it provides groundbreaking analysis, charts trajectories for further study and action, and offers visions for a more hopeful future.

Author : Juan Ricardo Cole,Nikki R. Keddie
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0300035535

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Shi'ism and Social Protest by Juan Ricardo Cole,Nikki R. Keddie Pdf

This timely and important book presents the first overview of Shi'i political activism in the countries where it has been most significant-from Iran and Lebanon to Saudi Arabia and Egypt. The contributors present up-to-date information on the factors involved in Shi'ism's recent movement away from quietism and toward an active involvement in politics. They also discuss how Shi'i political activism will affect the struggle in and for Lebanon; the Iran-Iraq war; Soviet attitudes toward Afghanistan and Iran; and U.S. policies toward the Middle East.

Author : Edmund Burke (III),Edmund Burke (III.),Ira M. Lapidus,Ervand Abrahamian
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520068681

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Islam, Politics, and Social Movements by Edmund Burke (III),Edmund Burke (III.),Ira M. Lapidus,Ervand Abrahamian Pdf

Taken together the essays in this work not only provide new research essential to the study of Islamic societies and Muslim peoples, but also set a new standard for the concrete study of local situations and illuminate the forces shaping the history of modern Muslim societies. This collection is unique in its sophisticated interpretation of the social protest and political resistance movements in Muslim countries during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The contributors take two principal approaches to the study of their subject. Utilizing "new cultural history," they explore how particular movements have deployed the cultural and religious resources of Islam to mobilize and legitimize insurgent political action. Others rely on "new social history" to study the economic, political, and social contexts in which movements of anti-colonial resistance and revolution have developed. This work brings together contributions from specialists on Islamic North Africa, Egypt, the Arab fertile crescent, Iran and India.

Author : Tina Fetner
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816649174

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How the Religious Right Shaped Lesbian and Gay Activism by Tina Fetner Pdf

While gay rights are on the national agenda now, activists have spent decades fighting for their platform, seeing themselves as David against the religious righta s Goliath. At the same time, the religious right has continuously and effectively countered the endeavors of lesbian and gay activists, working to repeal many of the laws prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation and to progress a constitutional amendment a protectinga marriage. In this accessible and grounded work, Tina Fetner uncovers a remarkably complex relationship between the two movementsa one that transcends political rivalry.

Author : Susan Bibler Coutin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004951674

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The Culture of Protest by Susan Bibler Coutin Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Religion and sociology
ISBN : 9998075823

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New Religious Movements and Rapid Social Change by Anonim Pdf