Richard L Wood
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3619624 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Richard L Wood |
| PRENOMES | Richard L |
| SOBRENOME | Wood |
| ASSINATURA | WOOD R L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of New Mexico |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9652-2481 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 158 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1993 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Damage Assessment of the 2020 Monroe, Louisiana, Tornado Using Different Remote-Sensing Methods and Enhanced Fujita Scales
Organizing and the Revitalization of American Catholicism
American Catholicism today struggles to sustain its longtime character as a truly “public religion”—that is, a religious tradition with a vital presence within the public sphere in the US. Reinvigorating Catholicism in the US will require both internal renewal and new approaches to public life, both of which will require continuity with the deep tradition and significant reorientation of ecclesial dynamics. This paper argues that specific, faith-…
Making Moral Citizens
Journal Article Making Moral Citizens: How Faith-Based Organizers Use Vocation for Public Action, by JACK DELEHANTY Get access Making Moral Citizens: How Faith-Based Organizers Use Vocation for Public Action, by JACK Delehanty. Durham, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2023, 222 pp.; $24.95 (paper). Richard L Wood Richard L Wood University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Ac…
Strategic Alliances
This multimethod study investigates strategic collaboration in alliances connecting politically engaged religious and secular social movement organizations. We assess the impact of religious-secular strategic alliances on movement political efficacy by analyzing data from a national survey of the community organizing field to compare organizations that do/do not participate in religious-secular alliances. The conceptual framework draws on the lit…
Feature-Based Point Cloud-Based Assessment of Heritage Structures for Nondestructive and Noncontact Surface Damage Detection
Assessment and evaluation of damage in cultural heritage structures are conducted primarily using nondestructive and noncontact methods. One common deployment is laser scanners or ground-based lidar scanners that produce a point cloud containing information at the centimeter to the millimeter level. This type of data allows for detecting surface damage, defects, cracks, and other anomalies based only on geometric surface descriptors using a singl…
Achieving and Leveraging Diversity through Faith- Based Organizing
After a perceived hiatus of several decades-"perceived" for reasons discussed below-religious progressives have reappeared in the public eye in recent years. Though mostly very marginal players in the Occupy Wall Street movement that made inequality a prominent public issue in American life by framing it as a struggle between "the one percent and the ninety-nine percent; religious progressives have been prominent participants in the subsequent d…
Secular Evangelicals
We present four modes of public religion-secularist, generalist pluralist, particularist pluralist, and exclusivist-and discuss conditions under which white evangelicals employ these different modes. Ethnographic research on white evangelicals participating in multifaith initiatives in Los Angeles, Portland, Boston, and Atlanta indicates that they prefer the secularist mode that avoids religious expression. In addition, the research indicates tha…
Representative Group Styles
Why are some organizations more successful than others at involving socially diverse groups of people? Previous research emphasizes the role representative leaders play in recruiting diverse constituencies. This study extends that research by analyzing how an organization's group style-its customs that shape everyday interactions-influences constituent involvement by either bridging or reinforcing social divides. Our multi-method approach examine…
Prophets and Patriots
For years, we have needed a carefully designed, book-length comparative study of religion within social movements at opposite ends of the political spectrum of the United States. We need to wait no more. This book delivers in spades on the analytic promise of that project. Braunstein is part of a new generation of sociologists who combine expertise in the sociology of religion and other subfields (for Braunstein, cultural sociology and social mov…
Civil Society Organizations and the Enduring Role of Religion in Promoting Democratic Engagement
As Tocqueville observed the emergence of democracy in the USA, he noted the central role religion played in undergirding democratic life. Nearly 200 years later, it is unclear whether religion continues to possess sufficient capacity to promote democratic engagement. This study links organizational theory with research on the structural and cultural characteristics of civil society organizations (CSOs) to assess the current impact of religion on …
The Catholic Bishops in the U.S. Public Arena
The public profile of the Roman Catholic bishops of the United States results not simply from their own interventions in political life, but from the broad array of actions and actors within “public Catholicism” broadly conceived. This article assesses the contemporary profile of the American bishops from this broad angle, particularly in light of new dynamics under the papacy of Francis I. It does so by documenting public Catholicism’s presence …
In defense of dualism
The term "dualism" is used in quite divergent connotations across religious studies, sociology, theology, anthropology, and other academic fields. This paper characterizes the differing usages of the term, and uses them to explore the sometimes-converging and sometimes-orthogonal relationship between academic fields, with a focus on religious studies and the sociology of religion. I argue that although the two fields have mutually benefited from …
Strategic Innovation and Democratic Theory
Conclusion
This unconventional conclusion considers the broad struggle for ethical democracy in the contemporary world. The chapter draws on the work of Jurgen Habermas to argue that constructing ethical democracy will require re-anchoring democratic life within society. Contemporary democratic dilemmas arise due to the gargantuan growth of the ‘Systems’ of Politics and the Economy. Absent adequate structures of accountability to hold these Systems in servi…
Lifelines to Healing
This chapter analyzes ‘targeted universalism’ in action, via the “Lifelines to Healing” campaign (subsequently renamed the “LiveFree” campaign). Lifelines to Healing/LiveFree is the PICO National Network’s effort to address racial equity, in this case by advocating for policies to fight urban violence and the mass incarceration of African American and Latino youth. Subsequently, the network moved to incorporate the fight against economic inequali…
Racial Diversity in Faith-Based Organizing
This chapter draws on data from the National Study of Community Organizing Coalitions to analyze a fundamental dimension of diversity in the national field of faith-based community organizing: the racial/ethnic diversity of its member institutions. Member institutions are primarily religious congregations from a variety of religious traditions, but about a fifth of member institutions are public schools, labor unions, faith-based organizations, n…
Transforming Institutions
This chapter offers a case study of one of the primary sponsors of faith-based community organizing in the United States, the PICO National Network. It analyzes the organizational dynamics underlying PICO’s transition from a race-neutral analysis of American society to an analysis focused partly on racial injustice and the struggle for racial equity. In the preceding decade, the PICO National Network expanded its local level organizational infras…
Introduction to Part II
This brief introduction to the second half of A Shared Future discusses the concept of ‘ethical democracy’ and links it to the following chapters’ case study of organizational transformation in the PICO National Network. It also explains why the work of faith-based community organizing might matter in large scale societal terms in the years ahead.
Leadership and Diversity
This chapter draws on data from the National Study of Community Organizing Coalitions to analyze the individual-level diversity among two sets of key leaders within faith-based community organizing: professional staff and governing board members. The chapter focuses on racial and ethnic diversity, but also examines socioeconomic, gender, and age diversity. The high level of diversity within the field’s leadership makes this social movement unusua…
Challenge to America
This unconventional chapter presents the full text of Wood’s 2013 interview of Rev. Michael McBride, an African American Pentecostal pastor who serves on the national staff of the PICO National Network as the Director of Urban Strategies. The interview thus offers the voice of one key national figure central to racial equity work in the field of faith-based community organizing. McBride’s interview includes his thinking related to implicit bias, …
The Scale of Organizing Today
This chapter introduces the National Study of Community Organizing Coalitions, an original survey of all faith-based community organizing coalitions in the U.S.. This study, which achieved a 94% response rate, offers the first comprehensive data on this field; in combination with a more limited earlier study, it allows assessment of changes between 1999 and 2011. The movement has grown substantially on a foundation of mobilizing structures that h…
A Shared Future
The Role of Culture and Technology in Civil Society Promotion in the Middle East
For over a decade, the U.S. administration has been sponsoring capacity-building efforts focusing on technology to support democracy activists in Middle Eastern societies; such efforts have often fallen short in their effectiveness. In this article, using a case study approach, we argue that capacity-building efforts must be approached in a culture-specific manner. It is imperative to begin exploring the specific nature of civil society in differ…
Advancing the Grounded Study of Religion and Society in Latin America
In rediscovering the interpenetration of popular culture and politics in Latin America, and thus the ways these realms mutually constitute one another, scholars have also witnessed the analytic irruption of one particular cultural field: religion. Close attention to grassroots political culture allows us to probe how people’s spiritual subjectivity and political subjectivity overlap and cross-fertilize one another. In the process, religion shapes…
The Role of Bridging Cultural Practices in Racially and Socioeconomically Diverse Civic Organizations
Organizations can benefit from being internally diverse, but they may also face significant challenges arising from such diversity. Potential benefits include increased organizational innovation, legitimacy, and strategic capacity; challenges include threats to organizational stability, efficacy, and survival. In this article, we analyze the dynamics of internal diversity within a field of politically oriented civic organizations. We find that "b…
The Role of Bridging Cultural Practices in Racially and Socioeconomically Diverse Civic Organizations
Organizations can benefit from being internally diverse, but they may also face significant challenges arising from such diversity. Potential benefits include increased organizational innovation, legitimacy, and strategic capacity; challenges include threats to organizational stability, efficacy, and survival. In this article, we analyze the dynamics of internal diversity within a field of politically oriented civic organizations. We find that "b…
A different face of faith‐based politics
Questions whether, in the USA, faith‐based communities can have an important effect on politics. Contends that other areas, where there are poorer communities, are more likely to be influenced politically in civil society although does not preclude other income sectors from being similarly affected just that deprived areas are more likely to listen to faith‐based organizers
Religious Culture and Political Action
Recent work by political sociologists and social movement theorists extend our understanding of how religious institutions contribute to expanding democracy, but nearly all analyze religious institutions as institutions; few focus directly on what religion qua religion might contribute. This article strives to illuminate the impact of religious culture per se, extending recent work on religion and democratic life by a small group of social moveme…
Social Capital and Political Culture
Among the most successful recent efforts at political engagement among low-income Americans have been those led by church-based community organizations (CCOs). This article discusses the strengths and limitations of Putnam's social capital framework for understanding the CCO success. A brief case study of community organizing among low-income, ethnically diverse residents of Oakland, California, shows how participants build a culture of political…
Faith in Action
Religious institutions and networks provide one of the key social bases out of which Americans' political affiliations take shape. Thus, religion is one of the crucial cultural bases for the organization and projection of political power in American society. But when a given congregation strives to organize for political participation, what factors influence its subsequent success or failure? This article investigates how two factors often consid…
Representative Group Styles
Why are some organizations more successful than others at involving socially diverse groups of people? Previous research emphasizes the role representative leaders play in recruiting diverse constituencies. This study extends that research by analyzing how an organization's group style-its customs that shape everyday interactions-influences constituent involvement by either bridging or reinforcing social divides. Our multi-method approach examine…
Interfaith Community Organizing Emerging Theological and Organizational Challenges
Interfaith work in the United States takes diverse forms: from grass-roots collaboration on projects such as feeding the homeless, to locally-sponsored interfaith dialogues, collaborations sponsored by national denominational bodies and shared work on federal ‘faith-based initiatives’. This article profiles the characteristics and dynamics of a particular type of interfaith work, done under the rubric of ‘broad-based’, ‘faith-based’ or ‘congregat…
Secular Evangelicals
We present four modes of public religion-secularist, generalist pluralist, particularist pluralist, and exclusivist-and discuss conditions under which white evangelicals employ these different modes. Ethnographic research on white evangelicals participating in multifaith initiatives in Los Angeles, Portland, Boston, and Atlanta indicates that they prefer the secularist mode that avoids religious expression. In addition, the research indicates tha…
Civil Society Organizations and the Enduring Role of Religion in Promoting Democratic Engagement
As Tocqueville observed the emergence of democracy in the USA, he noted the central role religion played in undergirding democratic life. Nearly 200 years later, it is unclear whether religion continues to possess sufficient capacity to promote democratic engagement. This study links organizational theory with research on the structural and cultural characteristics of civil society organizations (CSOs) to assess the current impact of religion on …
Advancing the Grounded Study of Religion and Society in Latin America
In rediscovering the interpenetration of popular culture and politics in Latin America, and thus the ways these realms mutually constitute one another, scholars have also witnessed the analytic irruption of one particular cultural field: religion. Close attention to grassroots political culture allows us to probe how people’s spiritual subjectivity and political subjectivity overlap and cross-fertilize one another. In the process, religion shapes…
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Faith in Action
Religious institutions and networks provide one of the key social bases out of which Americans' political affiliations take shape. Thus, religion is one of the crucial cultural bases for the organization and projection of political power in American society. But when a given congregation strives to organize for political participation, what factors influence its subsequent success or failure? This article investigates how two factors often consid…
Social Capital and Political Culture
Among the most successful recent efforts at political engagement among low-income Americans have been those led by church-based community organizations (CCOs). This article discusses the strengths and limitations of Putnam's social capital framework for understanding the CCO success. A brief case study of community organizing among low-income, ethnically diverse residents of Oakland, California, shows how participants build a culture of political…
Religious Culture and Political Action
Recent work by political sociologists and social movement theorists extend our understanding of how religious institutions contribute to expanding democracy, but nearly all analyze religious institutions as institutions; few focus directly on what religion qua religion might contribute. This article strives to illuminate the impact of religious culture per se, extending recent work on religion and democratic life by a small group of social moveme…
China's Catholics
A different face of faith‐based politics
Questions whether, in the USA, faith‐based communities can have an important effect on politics. Contends that other areas, where there are poorer communities, are more likely to be influenced politically in civil society although does not preclude other income sectors from being similarly affected just that deprived areas are more likely to listen to faith‐based organizers
Religion, Faith-Based Community Organizing, and the Struggle for Justice
On May 2, 2000, three thousand people converged on the State Capitol in Sacramento, California. But this was not the usual frenzy of lobbyists serving the interests of the well-off, using the tools of well-oiled political action committees. Rather, these were working poor, working class, and lower-middle income people lately referred to as working families and they went to Sacramento because they were tired of living on the verge of financial rui…
Thinking Culturally about Politics
Journal Article Thinking Culturally about Politics: Habits 20 Years Later and 20 Years Hence Get access Richard L. Wood Richard L. Wood University of New Mexico Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 68, Issue 2, Summer 2007, Pages 207–211, https://doi.org/10.1093/socrel/68.2.207 Published: 01 July 2007
Taming Prophetic Religion? Faith-Based Activism and Welfare Provision
This article examines the current debate in the United States (primarily) and Britain regarding government-funded social service provision via faith-based institutions. By highlighting the tension between the 'priestly' and 'prophetic' roles of public religion, it argues for the critical importance of protecting religion's prophetic role even as society moves toward more extensive public financing of priestly social service provision. The article…
Interfaith Community Organizing Emerging Theological and Organizational Challenges
Interfaith work in the United States takes diverse forms: from grass-roots collaboration on projects such as feeding the homeless, to locally-sponsored interfaith dialogues, collaborations sponsored by national denominational bodies and shared work on federal ‘faith-based initiatives’. This article profiles the characteristics and dynamics of a particular type of interfaith work, done under the rubric of ‘broad-based’, ‘faith-based’ or ‘congregat…
The rebirth of Catholic collective action in Central America
We analyze a new effort at collective political mobilization, sponsored by the Catholic Church in Central America following the demobilization of church-linked liberationist movements since the early 1990s. The current effort strives to re-project social Catholicism into the public arena by drawing on traditional Catholic structures, the cultural legacy of liberationist Catholicism, and a model of democratic organizing promoted by the PICO Nation…
Advancing the Grounded Study of Religion and Society in Latin America
In rediscovering the interpenetration of popular culture and politics in Latin America, and thus the ways these realms mutually constitute one another, scholars have also witnessed the analytic irruption of one particular cultural field: religion. Close attention to grassroots political culture allows us to probe how people’s spiritual subjectivity and political subjectivity overlap and cross-fertilize one another. In the process, religion shapes…
The Role of Bridging Cultural Practices in Racially and Socioeconomically Diverse Civic Organizations
Organizations can benefit from being internally diverse, but they may also face significant challenges arising from such diversity. Potential benefits include increased organizational innovation, legitimacy, and strategic capacity; challenges include threats to organizational stability, efficacy, and survival. In this article, we analyze the dynamics of internal diversity within a field of politically oriented civic organizations. We find that "b…
Strategic Innovation and Democratic Theory
Conclusion
This unconventional conclusion considers the broad struggle for ethical democracy in the contemporary world. The chapter draws on the work of Jurgen Habermas to argue that constructing ethical democracy will require re-anchoring democratic life within society. Contemporary democratic dilemmas arise due to the gargantuan growth of the ‘Systems’ of Politics and the Economy. Absent adequate structures of accountability to hold these Systems in servi…
Lifelines to Healing
This chapter analyzes ‘targeted universalism’ in action, via the “Lifelines to Healing” campaign (subsequently renamed the “LiveFree” campaign). Lifelines to Healing/LiveFree is the PICO National Network’s effort to address racial equity, in this case by advocating for policies to fight urban violence and the mass incarceration of African American and Latino youth. Subsequently, the network moved to incorporate the fight against economic inequali…
Racial Diversity in Faith-Based Organizing
This chapter draws on data from the National Study of Community Organizing Coalitions to analyze a fundamental dimension of diversity in the national field of faith-based community organizing: the racial/ethnic diversity of its member institutions. Member institutions are primarily religious congregations from a variety of religious traditions, but about a fifth of member institutions are public schools, labor unions, faith-based organizations, n…
Transforming Institutions
This chapter offers a case study of one of the primary sponsors of faith-based community organizing in the United States, the PICO National Network. It analyzes the organizational dynamics underlying PICO’s transition from a race-neutral analysis of American society to an analysis focused partly on racial injustice and the struggle for racial equity. In the preceding decade, the PICO National Network expanded its local level organizational infras…
Introduction to Part II
This brief introduction to the second half of A Shared Future discusses the concept of ‘ethical democracy’ and links it to the following chapters’ case study of organizational transformation in the PICO National Network. It also explains why the work of faith-based community organizing might matter in large scale societal terms in the years ahead.
Leadership and Diversity
This chapter draws on data from the National Study of Community Organizing Coalitions to analyze the individual-level diversity among two sets of key leaders within faith-based community organizing: professional staff and governing board members. The chapter focuses on racial and ethnic diversity, but also examines socioeconomic, gender, and age diversity. The high level of diversity within the field’s leadership makes this social movement unusua…
Challenge to America
This unconventional chapter presents the full text of Wood’s 2013 interview of Rev. Michael McBride, an African American Pentecostal pastor who serves on the national staff of the PICO National Network as the Director of Urban Strategies. The interview thus offers the voice of one key national figure central to racial equity work in the field of faith-based community organizing. McBride’s interview includes his thinking related to implicit bias, …
The Scale of Organizing Today
This chapter introduces the National Study of Community Organizing Coalitions, an original survey of all faith-based community organizing coalitions in the U.S.. This study, which achieved a 94% response rate, offers the first comprehensive data on this field; in combination with a more limited earlier study, it allows assessment of changes between 1999 and 2011. The movement has grown substantially on a foundation of mobilizing structures that h…
A Shared Future
The Role of Culture and Technology in Civil Society Promotion in the Middle East
For over a decade, the U.S. administration has been sponsoring capacity-building efforts focusing on technology to support democracy activists in Middle Eastern societies; such efforts have often fallen short in their effectiveness. In this article, using a case study approach, we argue that capacity-building efforts must be approached in a culture-specific manner. It is imperative to begin exploring the specific nature of civil society in differ…
The Catholic Bishops in the U.S. Public Arena
The public profile of the Roman Catholic bishops of the United States results not simply from their own interventions in political life, but from the broad array of actions and actors within “public Catholicism” broadly conceived. This article assesses the contemporary profile of the American bishops from this broad angle, particularly in light of new dynamics under the papacy of Francis I. It does so by documenting public Catholicism’s presence …
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