C Melissa Snarr
Biographic Data
| ID | 292916 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Melissa Snarr |
| GIVEN NAMES | C Melissa |
| FAMILY NAME | Snarr |
| SIGNATURE | SNARR C M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Emory University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Metabolizing Moral Shocks for Social Change
Moral shocks" are unexpected events or pieces of information that so deeply challenge one's basic values and sense of the world that they profoundly reorient a person's understanding of life and even self. Yet those who experience significant moral shocks rarely participate in related activism and instead experience grief as highly privatized and apolitical, a reality that serves the status quo and most powerful. This article considers how religi…
Formative Political Grief
E labor ating Faith
Emerging from participant observation fieldwork in varied interfaith organizations, this essay argues that intentional interfaith engagement in the United States is a decidedly classed phenomenon that too rarely includes the presence and concerns of persons who are working poor. This dynamic is particularly problematic given religious entanglements with free‐market capitalism and the specific political economic vulnerability and religious diversi…
All You That Labor
In the early 1990s, a grassroots coalition of churches in Baltimore, Maryland helped launch what would become a national movement. Joining forces with labor and low-wage worker organizations, they passed the first municipal living wage ordinance. Since then, over one hundred and forty-four municipalities and counties as well as numerous universities and local businesses in the United States have enacted such ordinances. Although religious persons…
Oh Mary, Don't You Weep
Despite religion's absence in much of secular labor and social movement theories' analyses, progressive religious coalitions are a fundamental partner in the rise of new labor activism in the United States. At a time when media and academia focus on the strength of the "religious right" at the federal level, the success of the municipal living wage movement demonstrates the under-recognized power of the "religious left" in cities around the natio…
The Art of Moral Protest
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The Art of Moral Protest
Oh Mary, Don't You Weep
Despite religion's absence in much of secular labor and social movement theories' analyses, progressive religious coalitions are a fundamental partner in the rise of new labor activism in the United States. At a time when media and academia focus on the strength of the "religious right" at the federal level, the success of the municipal living wage movement demonstrates the under-recognized power of the "religious left" in cities around the natio…
All You That Labor
In the early 1990s, a grassroots coalition of churches in Baltimore, Maryland helped launch what would become a national movement. Joining forces with labor and low-wage worker organizations, they passed the first municipal living wage ordinance. Since then, over one hundred and forty-four municipalities and counties as well as numerous universities and local businesses in the United States have enacted such ordinances. Although religious persons…
E labor ating Faith
Emerging from participant observation fieldwork in varied interfaith organizations, this essay argues that intentional interfaith engagement in the United States is a decidedly classed phenomenon that too rarely includes the presence and concerns of persons who are working poor. This dynamic is particularly problematic given religious entanglements with free‐market capitalism and the specific political economic vulnerability and religious diversi…
Formative Political Grief
Metabolizing Moral Shocks for Social Change
Moral shocks" are unexpected events or pieces of information that so deeply challenge one's basic values and sense of the world that they profoundly reorient a person's understanding of life and even self. Yet those who experience significant moral shocks rarely participate in related activism and instead experience grief as highly privatized and apolitical, a reality that serves the status quo and most powerful. This article considers how religi…
Sociology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (4 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (3 works) · Faith (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)