Description
Like most religions, Christianity can legitimate a society’s status quo or disrupt it; it can integrate and justify the culture of the powerful or overturn entire social, economic and political systems. Historically, when this disruptive power has been generated at the intersections of the Christian Church and social movements, it has changed both, often profoundly. This course will reflect sociologically and theologically (looking at social movement theory and Christian theological arguments for and against social activism); inductively (examining eight case studies of Church engagement in social movement activism); and practically (delineating what social movements and the Church have to gain from their mutual relationship).