First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Introduction, Christian Smith; Part 1 Pre-Existent Organizations and Leadership; Chapter 1 The Black Church in the Civil Rights Movement: the SCLC as the Decentralized, Radical Arm of the Black Church, Aldon Morris; Chapter 2 Radical Islamic Insurgency in the Iranian Revolution of 1978-1979, M. M. Salehi; Part 2 Religious Ritual and Insurgent Consciousness; Chapter 3 Pastoral Mobilization and Contention: The Religious Foundations of the Solidarity Movement in Poland, Maryjane Osa; Chapter 4 Religious Rituals of Resistance and Class Consciousness in Bolivian Tin-Mining Communities, June Nash; Part 3 Mobilization and Repression; Chapter 5 Popular Religion, Protest, and Revolt: The Emergence of Political Insurgency in the Nicaraguan and Salvadoran Churches of the 1960s-80s, Sharon Erickson Nepstad; Chapter 6 Church Leadership, State Repression, and the "Spiral of Involvement" in the South African Anti-aPart heid Movement, 1983-1990, Tristan Anne Borer; Part 4 Symbolic Worlds and Activist Identity; Chapter 7 For God and the Fatherland: Protestant Symbolic Worlds and the Rise of German National Socialism, DavidSikkink, MarkRegnerus; Chapter 8 Many are Called but Few Obey: Ideological Commitment and Activism in Operation Rescue, Rhys H.Williams, JeffreyBlackburn; Part 5 Religious Ideology and Disruptive Tactics; Chapter 9 Popular Christianity and Political Extremism in the United States, JamesAho; Chapter 10 A Comparison of the Political Behavior of Faith-Based and Secular Peace Groups, RonPagnucco;