Collective Action, Everyday Protest, and Lived Religion
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6220147 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R H Williams (0009-0000-8582-4989, University of Cincinnati, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 83-89 |
| Publication date | 2006-05-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social movement studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1474-2829 • E-ISSN: 1474-2837 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14742830600630465 |
| OpenAlex | W2020302241 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 7 |
The study of social movements and the study of religious movements, per se, have had a curious history of intertwined yet distinct concerns. Within what many scholars loosely call the ‘collective behavior’ tradition, the study of religion and religious movements was a great source of conceptual and empirical material. On one side, functionalist approaches to collective behavior often proceeded from Durkheim-inspired paradigms that posited religion as a source of stability, integration, and solidarity. Thus, religion was often portrayed as resisting social change, either directly or implicitly. Religious movements themselves, such as millenarian revivals or cults, were explored for their possible pathologies or the breakdown of routinized social transmission mechanisms. They were ‘irrational’ movements par excellence (see Kniss & Burns, 2004). However, in another stream of classical theory, Max Weber treated the dynamics of charismatic leadership, and the organizational dilemmas presented by the need to routinize charisma, as a major subject and a key element in his understanding of social change. Charismatic leadership itself was clearly constructed on non-rational emotional attachments and ideological commitments, but the social changes it engendered often had rationalizing impacts on the wider society (for a recent example of this type of research, see Young & Cherry, 2005). The ‘Protestant ethic’ thesis would be the primary example, but Weber’s other
Charisma · Collective action · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Ideology · Millenarianism · Political science · Politics · Social movement · Sociology · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2010 - 2026 (17) |
| Highly cited | No |