Religion, Mobilization, and Social Action

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Religious social action groups are emerging as key movers in sweeping sociopolitical changes world-wide. Although their inspiration is religious, their goals are secular. This volume considers the role of such groups by examining regions and nations where change has been most dramatic. Areas researched include: Western Europe, North America, the Amazonian rain basin, Malaysia, Japan, Russia, Northern Ireland, and Israel. The movements studied are as diverse as Conservative Judaism, Roman Catholicism, Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church, the New Christian Right, and Indonesian Muslims. In each case social action groups are studied to understand how they evolve within the current political context in order to change it.

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.,."offers much of value to students of religion and globalization."-Social Forces
...offers much of value to students of religion and globalization.-Social Forces
..."offers much of value to students of religion and globalization."-Social Forces

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ANSON SHUPE is Professor of Sociology at the joint campus of Indiana University and Purdue University, Fort Wayne. He has authored or edited 23 books, including The Violent Couple (Praeger, 1994) and In the Name of All That's Holy (Praeger, 1995). BRONISLAW MISZTAL is Professor of Sociology at the Catholic University of America. He has authored or edited several volumes, both in English and in Polish, including Religion and Politics in Comparative Perspective (Praeger, 1992).