Claiming Society for God: Religious Movements and Social Welfare
In their book, Claiming Society for God, Nancy Davis and Robert Robinson claim that conservative religious movements tend to be conceptualized under relatively narrow frameworks. For example, they bring people together to create a violent or terrorist-like state, or they seek to limit the rights of...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford Univ. Press
2014
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Sociology of religion
Year: 2014, Volume: 75, Issue: 1, Pages: 177-178 |
| Review of: | Claiming society for God (Bloomington, Ind. [u.a.] : Indiana Univ. Press, 2012) (Sager, Rebecca)
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| Summary: | In their book, Claiming Society for God, Nancy Davis and Robert Robinson claim that conservative religious movements tend to be conceptualized under relatively narrow frameworks. For example, they bring people together to create a violent or terrorist-like state, or they seek to limit the rights of women and others, especially in terms of sex. Davis and Robinson argue instead that these movements have a “caring side” that is often neglected. This caring side leads “them to build medical clinics, employment agencies, social welfare programs, hospices, and businesses paying better-than-average wages” (144), efforts that often are not acknowledged. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/socrel/sru009 |