Divined intervention: religious institutions and 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 Cat…
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- Full title :Divined intervention : religious institutions and collective action / Christopher W. Hale.
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"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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- Publication Date:©2020
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- Publisher(s):University of Michigan Press
- Place of Publication:Ann Arbor
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2020
The Physical Object
- Description:xi, 226 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780472131815, 0472131818
- oclc:on1107366186
- LC Classification:BX1428.3
- Dewey Decimal:261.7088/28272
Table of Contents
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.
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