Acknowledgements; About the Contributors; Introduction: Correcting a Curious Neglect, or Bringing Religion Back In; Part One: Preexistent Organizations and Leadership1. The Black Church in the Civil Rights Movement: The SCLS as the Decentralized, Radical Arm of the Black Church 2. Radical Islamic Insurgency in the Iranian Revolution of 1978-1979 Part Two: Religious Ritual and Insurgent Consciousness 3. Pastoral Mobilization and Contention: The Religious Foundation of the Solidarity Movement in Poland 4. Religious Rituals of Resistance and Class Consciousness in Bolivian Tin-Making CommunitiesPart Three: Mobilization and Repression 5. Popular Religion, Protest and Revolt: The Emergence of Political Insurgency in the Nicaraguan and Salvadoran Churches of the 1960s-1980s6. Church Leadership, State Repression, and the Spirit of Involvement in the South African Anti-Apartheid Movement, 1983-1990Part Four: Symbolic Worlds and Activist Identity7. For God and the Fatherland:Protestant Symbolic Worlds and the Rise of German National Socialism8. Many Are Called But Few Obey: Ideological Commitment and Activism in Operation Rescue Part Five: Religious Ideology and Disruptive Tactics 9 Popular Christianity and Political Extremism in the United States 10. A Comparison of the Political Behavior of Faith-Based and Secular Peace Groups Notes
Christian Smith
"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
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