Handbook of the Sociology of Religion

Religion and Political Behavior 305 Analyses of the CR have generally focused on the national level. But the impact of conservat ...

306 Jeff Manza and Nathan Wright recent years, however, the stability of the political alignments of mainline Protestants has be ...

Religion and Political Behavior 307 the Democratic Party. In other work, Brooks (1999) shows that family values have become an i ...

308 Jeff Manza and Nathan Wright the Democratic Party in 1976 (and to a lesser extent in 1980) in response to the candidacy of t ...

Religion and Political Behavior 309 Church services more often feature political addresses from public officials, and civic poli ...

310 Jeff Manza and Nathan Wright complex set of historical processes triggered by two revolutions, a “national” revolution and a ...

Religion and Political Behavior 311 Mair 1995: Chapter 8). The largest of these parties are Catholic in origin, such as those in ...

312 Jeff Manza and Nathan Wright Individual-Level Factors: Religion and the Alignment of Voters and Parties in Western Europe Th ...

Religion and Political Behavior 313 explicitly on the stability of the religious cleavage have usually found that while at- tend ...

314 Jeff Manza and Nathan Wright institutions. The classical secularization model produced a picture of declining religious infl ...

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Religious Social Movements in the Public Sphere Organization, Ideology, and Activism Rhys H. Williams When Am ...

316 Rhys H. Williams shaped by the fact that the movements are reliant on religion, and this in turn shapes the extent to which ...

Religious Social Movements in the Public Sphere 317 implications for religiously based social movements, is the subject of the s ...

318 Rhys H. Williams can provide the comfort people need when they feel defeated, and gives them stories to help convince them t ...

Religious Social Movements in the Public Sphere 319 economic class, and locality (sometimes neighborhood). They are, as a rule, ...

320 Rhys H. Williams activists often reveal a bit of impatience with the tentativeness of clergy on their fa- vorite issues (Wil ...

Religious Social Movements in the Public Sphere 321 produce what came to be known as Progressivism. Yet all of the causes above ...

322 Rhys H. Williams aggregate competing interests and occasionally compromise on often mutually exclu- sive principles. Parties ...

Religious Social Movements in the Public Sphere 323 organizations have at least one common challenge – coordinating political ac ...

324 Rhys H. Williams women’s movement of the large numbers of young women who were first active in the civil rights movement is ...