Something Within: Religion as a Mobilizer of African-American Political Activism

Harris, Fredrick C.

doi:10.2307/2132345

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“…The link between church membership and more demanding political action beyond voting (such as joining initiatives or campaigns) remains weak overall (Harris 1994;Elisha 2011). Nor is there anything automatic about these church members' adoption of wider campaign goals (in this case climate change aims).…”

Section: Comparative Analysis: Traditional Resourcesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Faith-based climate action in Christian congregations: mobilisation and spiritual resources

Bomberg

Hague

2018

Local Environment

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This article seeks to explain how and why church congregations mobilise on environmental issues and what -if anything -is distinctive about that mobilisation. Building on and adapting Resource Mobilisation Theory (RMT), we develop the idea of "spiritual resources" to help explain how a collection of spiritual identities, values, symbols and narratives can facilitate distinctive collective action on environmental issues. Our analysis draws on data derived from an in-depth case study of climate active groups in Scotland. It includes content analysis of websites, news stories as well as ethnographic observation of selected church and secular groups engaged in climate activity. We find church groups do enjoy a distinct set of resources -comprising tradition, rituals and symbols shaped by theology and doctrine -which are not wholly captured by other explanations of climate mobilisation. While these spiritual resources do not directly translate into specific environmental or climate action they can, especially when combined with other resources, lead to environmental activities distinctly motivated, and distinctly practised at the individual and community level. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Section: Comparative Analysis: Traditional Resourcesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Faith-based climate action in Christian congregations: mobilisation and spiritual resources

Bomberg

Hague

2018

Local Environment

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“…for the US, cf. Harris, 1994;Layman, 1997;Baumgartner et al, 2008;Driskell et al, 2008). The consideration of the nexus of religion and establishment matters, because it is the latter that makes policies, in developed and developing countries alike.…”

Section: Capturing the Human Component: Religions As Markers For Modementioning

confidence: 99%

On deeper human dimensions in Earth system analysis and modelling

Gerten¹,

Schönfeld²,

Schauberger³

2018

Preprint

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While humanity is altering planet Earth at unprecedented magnitude and speed, representation of the cultural driving factors and their dynamics in models of the Earth system is limited. In this review and perspectives paper, we argue that more or less distinct environmental value sets can be assigned to religion -a deeply embedded feature of human cultures, here defined as collectively shared belief in something sacred. This assertion renders religious theories, practices and actors suitable for 5 studying cultural facets of anthropogenic Earth system change, especially regarding deeper, non-materialistic motivations that ask about humans' self-understanding in the Anthropocene epoch. We sketch a modelling landscape and outline some research primers, encompassing the following elements: i) extensions of existing Earth system models by quantitative relationships between religious practices and biophysical processes, building on databases that allow for (mathematical) formalisation of such knowledge, ii) design of new model types that specifically represent religious morals, actors and 10 activities as part of coevolutionary human-environment dynamics, and iii) identification of research questions of humanitarian relevance that are underrepresented in purely economic-technocratic modelling and scenario paradigms. While this analysis is by necessity heuristic and semi-cohesive, we hope that it will act as a stimulus for further, interdisciplinary and systematic research on the immaterial dimension of humanity's imprint on the Earth system, both qualitatively and quantitatively. 15

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“…There is a well-established relationship between a person's race and her level of religious devotion (Calhoun-Brown, 1999;Cohen, 1999;Harris, 1999). In addition, a widely documented link exists between an African American voter's churchly dedication and her support for same-sex marriage (for recent evidence, read Griffith, & Cruz, 2010).…”

Section: Religiosity As a Mediating Conceptmentioning

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Understanding the Complex Influence of Religiosity on the Race Gap

Block¹,

Seltzer²

2012

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We provide evidence from several surveys showing that religiosity can not only explain (mediate) but also influence (moderate) the relationship between a voter's race and/or ethnicity and her attitudes about Proposition 8 (California's Proposal to amend the state's constitution and ban same-sex marriage in 2008) and related issues. These findings advance our understanding of the complex and enduring role of the Black church as a socializing institution in African-American communities, and they speak to the need among proponents of same-sex unions to inform churchgoers about the socio-political implications of anti-gay and exclusionary policies.

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Something Within: Religion as a Mobilizer of African-American Political Activism

Cited by 301 publications

References 26 publications

Faith-based climate action in Christian congregations: mobilisation and spiritual resources

Faith-based climate action in Christian congregations: mobilisation and spiritual resources

On deeper human dimensions in Earth system analysis and modelling

Understanding the Complex Influence of Religiosity on the Race Gap

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