Handbook of the Sociology of Religion

Religious Social Movements in the Public Sphere 325 While often allied politically, they also become competitors for resources, ...

326 Rhys H. Williams In sum, social movement organizations range considerably, from highly organized and bureaucratized operatio ...

Religious Social Movements in the Public Sphere 327 language clearly puts American history and destiny in a divine storyline (Wi ...

328 Rhys H. Williams institutional structures and demands of policy formation – especially at the national level – should be evi ...

Religious Social Movements in the Public Sphere 329 importance. As a result, they will often declare victory on the basis of lit ...

330 Rhys H. Williams passion when a movement needs to make some of the compromise necessary to partic- ipate in pluralist politi ...

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE Mapping the Moral Order Depicting the Terrain of Religious Conflict and Change Fred Kniss INTRODUCTION The ...

332 Fred Kniss BIPOLAR CONCEPTIONS OF AMERICAN RELIGION A number of political observers and social scientists have suggested tha ...

Mapping the Moral Order 333 of religion and the writing of American religious history. Bellah, in much of his writing (alone and ...

334 Fred Kniss standards (i.e., the nature of “goodness,” “beauty,” and “truth”). The second issue ad- dresses the question of w ...

Mapping the Moral Order 335 this view as an attack on “fundamentals” and a challenge to traditional authority (Marsden 1980). Tr ...

336 Fred Kniss reforming individuals. Religious communalists such as liberation theologians are more likely to talk about “socia ...

LIBERTARIANISM(individual as moral project) COMMUNALISM(collectivity as moral project) TRADITIONALISM(collectivity as locus of a ...

338 Fred Kniss on the map. Although right-wing purists would tend to be located in the northeast corner and left-wing purists in ...

LIBERTARIANISM(individual as moral project) COMMUNALISM(collectivity as moral project) TRADITIONALISM(collectivity as locus of a ...

340 Fred Kniss in the civil rights movement. An interesting recent variation on a similar theme is the “new evangelical left.” G ...

Mapping the Moral Order 341 authoritarian directions as they grew and institutionalized. The Church of Scientology is a good exa ...

342 Fred Kniss become sharper within the Mennonite community and the number and intensity of such conflicts would increase. Else ...

Mapping the Moral Order 343 expanding the legitimate bases of conscientious objection was one important element of the widesprea ...

344 Fred Kniss Research on the religion of new (post-1965) immigrant communities has been a burgeoning subfield in the sociology ...