Divined intervention: religious institutions and collective action
Of God and coffee -- Theology, competition, and decentralization -- Religion and political activism across Mexico -- Religious decentralization and political activism in Chiapas -- Activist malaise in the centralized Archdiocese of Yucatán -- Decentralization and recentralization in the Diocese of C...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Ann Arbor
University of Michigan Press
[2020]
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| In: | Year: 2020 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Mexico
/ Catholic church
/ Political movement
/ Social movement
/ Organizational sociology
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| Further subjects: | B
Catholic Church (Mexico)
B Political Participation (Mexico) Case studies B Political Participation Religious aspects Catholic Church Case studies B Catholics Political activity (Mexico) Case studies B Social Movements (Mexico) Case studies B Liberation Theology (Mexico) Case studies B Religion And Politics (Mexico) Case studies B Social Movements Religious aspects Catholic Church Case studies B Catholic Church Government |
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Table of Contents |
| Summary: | Of God and coffee -- Theology, competition, and decentralization -- Religion and political activism across Mexico -- Religious decentralization and political activism in Chiapas -- Activist malaise in the centralized Archdiocese of Yucatán -- Decentralization and recentralization in the Diocese of Cuernavaca -- Wider reflections on religion and grassroots collective action. "Divined Intervention provides an innovative institutionalist account for why religion enables political activism in some settings, but not others. The author argues that decentralized religious institutions facilitate grassroots collective action, and he uses a multimethod approach to test this explanation against several theoretical alternatives, all in Mexico. 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 Chiapas, Yucatán, and Morelos, the author shows that religious decentralization encourages reciprocal cooperative interactions at a local level. This then increases the ability of the religion to provide goods and services to its local adherents, and these processes then prompt the growth of organizational capacities at the grassroots, enabling secular political activism"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0472131818 |