Author: Jean CalvinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 520
Book Description
Institucion religiosa
Author: Jean CalvinWorld Guide to Religious and Spiritual Organizations
Author: Union of International AssociationsPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Religion in Latin America
Author: Divined Intervention
Author: Christopher Wayne HalePublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472126547
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Divined Intervention provides an innovative institutionalist account for why religion enables political activism in some settings, but not others. Christopher W. Hale argues that decentralized religious institutions facilitate grassroots collective action, and he uses a multimethod approach to test this explanation against several theoretical alternatives. Utilizing nationally representative Mexican survey data, the book’s statistical analyses demonstrate that decentralization by the Catholic Church is positively associated with greater individual political activism across the country. Using case studies centered in the Mexican states of Chiapas, Yucatán, and Morelos, the author shows that religious decentralization encourages reciprocal cooperative interactions at a local level. This then increases the ability of religion to provide goods and services to its local adherents. These processes then prompt the growth of organizational capacities at the grassroots, enabling secular political activism. Because this theoretical framework is grounded in human behavior, it shows how local institutions politically organize at the grassroots level. Divined Intervention also offers an improved understanding of religion’s relationship with political activism, a topic of ever-increasing significance as religion fuels political engagement across the globe. The book further synthesizes seemingly disparate approaches to the study of collective action into a cohesive framework. Finally, there is some debate as to the impact of ethnic diversity on the provision of public goods, and this study helps us understand how local institutional configurations can enable collective action across ethnic boundaries.
Latin American Religion in Motion
Author: Christian SmithPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135962936
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Latin America is undergoing a period of intense religious transformation and upheaval. This book analyzes some of the more important new discoveries about religious movements in the region. It examines important shifts such as the expansion and politicization of Protestantism, the ongoing transformation of the Catholic church, the growth of Afro-Brazilian religions, and the genuine pluralization of faith.
Religious Denominations in the United States, Their Past History, Present Condition, and Doctrines, Accurately Set Forth in Fifty-three ... Articles Written by Eminent Clerical and Lay Authors ... Together with Complete and Well-digested Statistics. To which is Added a Historical Summary of Religious Denominations in England and Scotland
Author: Between Church and State
Author: James W. FraserPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312233396
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Today, the ongoing battle between religion and public education is once again a burning issue in the United States. Prayer in the classroom, the teaching of creationism, the representation of sexuality in the classroom, and the teaching of morals are just a few of the subjects over which these institutions are skirmishing. James Fraser shows that though these battles have been going on for as long as there have been public schools, there has never been any consensus about the proper relationship between religion and public education. Looking at the most difficult question of how private issues of faith can be reconciled with the very public nature of schooling, Fraser paints a picture of our multicultural society that takes our relationship with God into account.
The Church as a Social Institution
Author: David O. MobergPublisher: Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall
ISBN:
Category : Christian sociology
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Pillars of Faith
Author: Nancy Tatom AmmermanPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520938335
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
At the close of the twentieth century the United States was, by all accounts, among the most religious of modern Western nations. Pillars of Faith describes the diversity of tradition and the commonality of organizational strategy that characterize the more than 300,000 congregations in the United States, arguing that they provide the social bonds, spiritual traditions, and community connections that are vital to an increasingly diverse society. Nancy Tatom Ammerman follows several traditions--Mainline Protestant, Conservative Protestant, African American Protestant, Catholic and Orthodox, Jewish, Sectarian, and other religions--as they establish discernible patterns of congregational life that fit their own history, tradition, and relationship to American society. Her methodologically sophisticated study balances survey research with interviews conducted with people from ninety-one different religious traditions and ethnographic observations that yield new information on many dimensions of American congregational life. Her book is the first to depict the complex resource base supporting American congregations, the enormous web of partners with whom congregations work, and the range of institutional patterns they exhibit. Contrary to many gloomy forecasts, Pillars of Faith: American Congregations and Their Partners argues that organized religion in the United States is robust and vigorous--and that it can handle the increasing demands of escalating diversity and mobility the future is sure to bring.
U.S. Religious Interest Groups
Author: Paul J. WeberPublisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
This encyclopedia is a unique and invaluable reference for students, academicians, organization personnel, journalists, activists, and lay leaders who want easy-to-access analytical information about 118 U.S. religious organizations today with data about past traditions and religious activism through the years on American public policy formation.