Organizing Urban America: Secular and Faith-based Progressive Movements
In developing a micro-level comparative critique of both congregation-based community organizing (CBCOs) and their secular and community-based next of kin, Organizing Urban America paints a much-needed portrait of the grassroots culture of American organizing. Swarts's original analysis of “the...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford Univ. Press
2010
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Sociology of religion
Year: 2010, Volume: 71, Issue: 3, Pages: 375-376 |
| Review of: | Organizing urban America (Minneapolis, Minn. [u.a.] : Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2008) (Rinker, Jeremy A.)
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| Summary: | In developing a micro-level comparative critique of both congregation-based community organizing (CBCOs) and their secular and community-based next of kin, Organizing Urban America paints a much-needed portrait of the grassroots culture of American organizing. Swarts's original analysis of “the factors that constrain and enable” (xv) American social movement organization culture provides a rare glimpse inside low-income urban collective action. Since so much of the scholarship on collective action campaigns has, until recently, been overly influenced by the rational actor mode, Swarts's attempt at giving voice and agency to grassroots local organizers is a welcome corrective. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srq043 |