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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Christian S Smith |
ISBN: | 0415914051 9780415914055 0415914043 9780415914048 |
OCLC Number: | 60185203 |
Description: | 256 pages |
Contents: | Acknowledgements, About the Contributors, Introduction: Correcting a Curious Neglect, or Bringing Religion Back In, Part One: Preexistent Organizations and Leadership, Chapter 1. The Black Church in the Civil Rights Movement: The SCLS as the Decentralized, Radical Arm of the Black Church, Chapter 2. Radical Islamic Insurgency in the Iranian Revolution of 1978-1979, Part Two: Religious Ritual and Insurgent Consciousness, Chapter 3. Pastoral Mobilization and Contention: The Religious Foundation of the Solidarity Movement in Poland, Chapter 4. Religious Rituals of Resistance and Class Consciousness in Bolivian Tin-Making CommunitiesPart Three: Mobilization and Repression, Chapter 5. Popular Religion, Protest and Revolt: The Emergence of Political Insurgency in the Nicaraguan and Salvadoran Churches of the 1960s-1980s, Chapter 6. Church Leadership, State Repression, and the 'Spirit of Involvement' in the South African Anti-Apartheid Movement, 1983-1990, Part Four: Symbolic Worlds and Activist Identity, Chapter 7. For God and the Fatherland: Protestant Symbolic Worlds and the Rise of National Socialism in Germany |
Responsibility: | Christian S. Smith (editor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA). |
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"This is an excellent book that deserves to be widely read ... [It] is highly readable and would be of interest to a much wider audience than academic scholars ... This book could serve very well as a supplementary text in sociology of religion courses." -- Journal of Church andState Read more...
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