Collective Welfare as Resource Mobilization in Peoples Temple: A Case Study of a Poor People's Religious Social Movement
Previous research on resource mobilization in religious social movements represents one side of a sociological equation that can be balanced by investigating resource allocation, toward both collective goals and individual needs of participants. Peoples Temple offers an instructive example of the re...
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| Language: | English |
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1988
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Sociological analysis
Year: 1988, Volume: 49, Pages: 64S-77S |
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| Summary: | Previous research on resource mobilization in religious social movements represents one side of a sociological equation that can be balanced by investigating resource allocation, toward both collective goals and individual needs of participants. Peoples Temple offers an instructive example of the resource-related organizational tensions in a poor people's movement. Its communal and world-transforming orientation was grafted onto conventional fund-raising techniques in ways that exacerbated conflict with external critics. Internally, the Temple became a charismatic bureaucracy that may be seen both as a “greedy institution” and, paradoxically, as a “corporation of people” that operated to lessen the social alienation of its members. |
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| ISSN: | 2325-7873 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociological analysis
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3711144 |