Handbook of the Sociology of Religion

Latina Empowerment and Border Realities 405 consciousness. While symbolic forms of resistance are important, it is in collective ...

406 Milagros Pe ̃na Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848. Tensions continue with the influx of “new”^1 immigration, both legal and illegal. ...

Latina Empowerment and Border Realities 407 who support them, violence against migrant women is articulated as not the migrant w ...

408 Milagros Pe ̃na This narrative of Annunciation House’s history is similar to that of several other NGOs that organized aroun ...

Latina Empowerment and Border Realities 409 decided to channel their efforts into programs focused on women’s development. As re ...

410 Milagros Pe ̃na The research reveals a rich relationship between a number of women’s religious groups and the grassroots org ...

Latina Empowerment and Border Realities 411 These brief excerpts illuminate how religious, class, and ethnic boundaries were cro ...

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT Worldly or Otherworldly? “Activism” in an Urban Religious District Omar M. McRoberts INTRODUCTION Colloquia ...

Activism in an Urban Religious District 413 Dichotomous typologies such as these are built on the assumption that there is in fa ...

414 Omar McRoberts I pose this challenge using ethnographic data collected during a five-year study of religious congregations i ...

Activism in an Urban Religious District 415 conservative traditions (Davidson 1985; Rogers 1990; Rooney 1995). Scholars have tak ...

416 Omar McRoberts This understanding of scripture encourages believers to apply biblical insights to the exigencies of daily li ...

Activism in an Urban Religious District 417 personal dignity, and newfound community” (Baer and Singer 1992: 172). The unify- in ...

418 Omar McRoberts the neighborhood still appeared too “disorganized” to attract public money for com- munity development. He su ...

Activism in an Urban Religious District 419 “sanctuaries” (Roozen et al. 1988), within which individuals diligently pursue their ...

420 Omar McRoberts appear as dangerous and anarchical, and have to be hedged around with prescrip- tions, prohibitions, and cond ...

Activism in an Urban Religious District 421 To be sure, religious ideas and ideological leanings limit the pastors to certain ki ...

422 Omar McRoberts church affairs. Studies situated within world/otherworld frameworks risk overlooking, or underanalyzing, such ...

References Abramson, Paul R., John H. Aldrich, and David W. Rhode. 1998.Change and Continuity in the 1996 Elections. Washington, ...

424 References Ammerman, Nancy T. 1987.Bible Believers: Fundamentalists in the Modern World. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers Universi ...