• DOI:10.1177/0003122411435905
Corpus ID: 144678806

Structure and Dynamics of Religious Insurgency

@article{Kim2012StructureAD,
  title={Structure and Dynamics of Religious Insurgency},
  author={Hyojoung Kim and Steven Pfaff},
  journal={American Sociological Review},
  year={2012},
  volume={77},
  pages={188 - 215}
}

• Hyojoung Kim, Steven Pfaff
• Published 2012
• Sociology
• American Sociological Review

The Protestant Reformation swept across Central Europe in the early-sixteenth century, leaving cities divided into Evangelical and Catholic camps as some instituted reforms and others remained loyal to the Roman Church. In offering a new explanation of the Reformation, we develop a theory that identifies ideologically mobilized students as bridge actors—that is, agents of religious contention who helped concatenate incidents of local insurgency into a loosely organized Evangelical movement by… Expand