Ideas and symbols as resources in intrareligious conflict: the case of American Mennonites.

Sociology of Religion | March 22, 1996| | Copyright

One of the important current debates in the study of social movements and social conflict concerns the role of cultural or ideological factors. The resource mobilization theories that have dominated the field, at least in American sociology, have emphasized the role of material and political resources in their explanations. McCarthy and Zald (1977) go the furthest in this respect, but Tilly (1978), Gamson (1990), and others working from this perspective have also suggested that ideas and symbols are epiphenomenal or are irrelevant for understanding the process of a social ...

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