An activist religiosity? Exploring Christian support for the Occupy movement
While Christian involvement in progressive social movements and activism is increasingly recognized, this literature has rarely gone beyond conceptualising religion as a resource to consider instead the ways in which individual activists may articulate their religious identity and how this intersect...
| Published in: | Journal of contemporary religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Carfax Publ.
[2017]
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| In: |
Journal of contemporary religion
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Occupy movement
/ Christian
/ Protest movements
/ Support
/ Motivation
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| Further subjects: | B
Activism
B Religious Identity B Christianity B Social Movements B Occupy |
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (Verlag) |
| Summary: | While Christian involvement in progressive social movements and activism is increasingly recognized, this literature has rarely gone beyond conceptualising religion as a resource to consider instead the ways in which individual activists may articulate their religious identity and how this intersects with the political. Based on ten in-depth interviews with Christian supporters of the London Occupy movement, this study offers an opportunity to respond to this gap by exploring the rich meaning-making processes of these activists. The article suggests that the location of the Occupy camp outside St Paul's Cathedral was of central importance in bringing the Christian Occupiers' religio-political identities to the foreground, their Christianity being defined in opposition to that represented by St Paul's. The article then explores the religio-political meaning-making of the Christian Occupiers and introduces the term activist religiosity' as a way of understanding how religion and politics were articulated, and enacted, in similar ways. Indeed, religion and politics became considerably entangled and intertwined, rendering theoretical frameworks that conceptualise religion as a resource increasingly inappropriate. The features of this activist religiosity include post-institutional identities, a dislike of categorisation, and, centrally, the notion of doings'a predominant focus on engaged, active involvement. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-9419 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of contemporary religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/13537903.2016.1256648 |