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} }
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…
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