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Divined intervention : religious institutions and collective action / Christopher W. Hale.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hale, Christopher W., 1980- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Catholic Church--Mexico.
- Catholic Church.
- Catholic Church--Government.
- Catholics--Political activity--Mexico--Case studies.
- Catholics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (239 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- Divined Intervention provides an innovative institutionalist account for why religion enables political activism in some settings, but not others.Christopher W.Hale argues that decentralized religious institutions facilitate grassroots collective action, and he uses a multimethod approach to test this explanation against several theoretical.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- One: Of God and Coffee
- Two: Theology, Competition, and Decentralization
- Three: Religion and Political Activism across Mexico
- Four: Religious Decentralization and Political Activism in Chiapas
- Five: Activist Malaise in the Centralized Archdiocese of Yucatán
- Six: Decentralization and Recentralization in the Diocese of Cuernavaca
- Seven: Wider Reflections on Religion and Grassroots Collective Action
- Appendixes
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-472-12654-7
- OCLC:
- 1112361017
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