Agitators, Tranquilizers, or Something Else: Do Religious Groups Increase or Decrease Contentious Collective Action?

This article critically assesses existing scholarship on the roles that religious groups play in collective contention. Researchers disagree on three main issues: (a) whether religious doctrines and values make religious groups more or less likely to launch collective contention; (b) whether religio...

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Main Author: Tao, Yu (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: MDPI [2018]
In: Religions
Year: 2018, Volume: 9, Issue: 7, Pages: 1-12
Further subjects:B Doctrine
B Social Capital
B social cleavages
B collective contention
B Social stability
B church-state relations
B Value
B associational life
B contentious politics
B RELIGIOUS groups
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