Religion And Social Movements

3 credits · Graduate School

This course focuses upon the roles of religious organizations, persons, and resources in social-political movements for change. Students will be engaged in the interdisciplinary conversations on the contributions and constraints that religious groups provide for social movements. Among the questions students will investigate are: What makes an activist? In what ways do religions provide resources-materially, ideationally, and culturally for the emergence and maintenance of social movements? In what ways are religious groups transformed by their interaction with the political process? [3]