1. Faithful Fasting: the Indian Independence Movement
2. Invoking Violence: the Civil Rights Movement
3. Sacred Surety: Divine Mandate and Violence in the Anti-Abortion Movement
4. The Pope and the Black Madonna: Ritual, Word, and Movement in the Polish Solidarity Movement
5. Imagining the Impossible: the Anti-apartheid Movement of the 1980s and 1990s
6. Prayers Permeated: Water Protectors and the #NoDAPL Movement
Conclusion: A Model For Analyzing Religious Resources in Social Movements
Biography
Tobin Miller Shearer is a history professor and the director of the African-American Studies Program at University of Montana, USA.
"Religion and Social Protest Movements feels timely for American audiences with the increasing visibility of the Movement for Black Lives and the controversy over the kneeling posture associated with it. Tobin Shearer helps us understand certain phases in the long international history of religious protests, including a detailed study of Christian civil rights activism through the 1970s. His work reminds us of the geographically widespread nature of the historic Black freedom struggle, and it provides analytical tools to help us recognize further developments in that struggle. Shearer’s attention to the cultural traits sometimes shared by religious protestors and their critics also drives home the importance of reconsidering artificial dichotomies during moments of crisis."
Kimberly Hill, University of Texas at Dallas, USA.
