Religion and Social Protest Movements

ISBN-13: 9781138090255 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 180 str.

Tobin Miller Shearer

Opis

What role has religion played in social protest movements? Religion and Social Protest Movements examines how activists have used religious resources such as liturgy, prayer, song and vestments with a focus on global case studies.

Spis treści

1. Faithful Fasting: the Indian Independence Movement  2. Invoking Violence: the Civil Rights Movement  3. Sacred Surety: Divine Mandate and Violence in the Anti-Abortion Movement  4. The Pope and the Black Madonna: Ritual, Word, and Movement in the Polish Solidarity Movement  5. Imagining the Impossible: the Anti-apartheid Movement of the 1980s and 1990s  6. Prayers Permeated: Water Protectors and the #NoDAPL Movement  Conclusion: A Model For Analyzing Religious Resources in Social Movements

O autorze

Tobin Miller Shearer is a history professor and the director of the African-American Studies Program at University of Montana, USA.