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He is the author or coauthor of numerous books, including Soul Searching: Human Personhood and Culture. Would you like to tell us about a lower price? If you are a seller for this product, would you like to suggest updates through seller support?
Learn more about Amazon Prime. A comprehensive analysis of the U. Central America peace movement, Resisting Reagan explains why more than one hundred thousand U.
Focusing on the movement's three most important national campaigns—Witness for Peace, Sanctuary, and the Pledge of Resistance—this book demonstrates the centrality of morality as a political motivator, highlights the importance of political opportunities in movement outcomes, and examines the social structuring of insurgent consciousness. Based on extensive surveys, interviews, and research, Resisting Reagan makes significant contributions to our understanding of the formation of individual activist identities, of national movement dynamics, and of religious resources for political activism.
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From the Back Cover 'Resisting Reagan' represents the bet tradition of social movement case studies. University of Chicago Press; 1 edition June 15, Language: Related Video Shorts 0 Upload your video. Try the Kindle edition and experience these great reading features: Share your thoughts with other customers. Write a customer review. There was a problem filtering reviews right now.
Please try again later. Christian Smith wrote in the Introduction to this book, "One of the most interesting and significant of these foreign policy-oriented grassroots movements in the U.
In this movement, more than one hundred thousand U. Ordinary citizens marched in the streets, illegally housed refugees fleeing persecution Amazingly, however, the U. Central America peace movement of the s has received scant attention in both the popular and academic literature Indeed, many scholars appear unaware that it ever existed This work explains why more than , US citizens marched in the streets, illegally housed refugees, travelled to Central American war zones, committed civil disobedience, and hounded their political representatives to contest the Reagan administration's policy of sponsoring wars in Nicaragua and El Salvador.
The Sources of Central American Unrest 2: United States Intervention 3: Launching the Peace Movement 5: Grasping the Big Picture 6: The Social Structure of Moral Outrage 7: The Individual Activists 8: Negotiating Strategies and Collective Identity 9: Fighting Battles of Public Discourse Facing Harassment and Repression Problems for Protesters Closer to Home The Movement's Demise What Did the Movement Achieve?
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