Shirley Lei
A10584128
POLI 136 Magagna
March, 18, 2016
The Connection Between Religion and Collective Action
Throughout the course of American history, many groups have gathered together in order to implement change to systematic institutions all over the world. A major component that has united groups across the nation has been through religious organizations. Religion normally connects people through a common faith, but it can also be used in order to execute change in the world to create greater good for those in the community. Through the unity of different religious entities across the world, religion has joined many people together in order to perform collective action in cases such as Martin Luther King Jr.’s civil rights movement, the …show more content…
to change his own son’s name in order to honor him. Through Martin Luther’s gathering of religious institutions in order to reform the Protestant church, Martin Luther King Sr. was inspired by his religious faith so much that he decided to make a major change in his life to show support of it. This shows how religion can be used to unite people together due to a common goal in religion and civil rights to perform collective action.
However, with this name and the religious meaning behind it, MLK Jr. did not want to be the leader of a huge movement or to take part in religious politics. All he wanted was to be a good father to his children, husband to his wife, and a minister who had a national voice. He used his position to speak to millions of people through radio and television to provide a voice of conscience to Christians all over the nation. He was an extremely good speaker and became the voice of the civil rights movement starting around the 1950s Magagna Mar. 2).
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His voice began in Montgomery, Alabama. Buses were segregated to separate people of color from those who came from white descent. Lots of African American women worked …show more content…
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This is where religion and collective action begins to take place in the civil rights movement.
Martin Luther King Jr. believed that faith and god were the driving force in his position in the civil rights movement. Despite the fact that he did not want this for himself, as previously mentioned, he thought that it was divine fate and an act of his religion that drew him to be the center of this movement. Since he was in a position of power with his church as well as his personal relationship with President Lyndon B. Johnson, he tried to figure out how he could use this to mobilize people in order to gather support (Magagna Mar. 2). Through his religion, Martin
Luther King Jr. was able to use it as a point of support in order to gain traction in the movement to perform this collective action to create change in the ways that different races were treated unequal. He did this by speaking to those who were deeply religious because he believed that due to religion, that he could gather support based on their morals and beliefs. By doing this, he was able to reach out to more churches outside of his own to gain more and more supporters
A10584128
POLI 136 Magagna
March, 18, 2016
The Connection Between Religion and Collective Action
Throughout the course of American history, many groups have gathered together in order to implement change to systematic institutions all over the world. A major component that has united groups across the nation has been through religious organizations. Religion normally connects people through a common faith, but it can also be used in order to execute change in the world to create greater good for those in the community. Through the unity of different religious entities across the world, religion has joined many people together in order to perform collective action in cases such as Martin Luther King Jr.’s civil rights movement, the …show more content…
to change his own son’s name in order to honor him. Through Martin Luther’s gathering of religious institutions in order to reform the Protestant church, Martin Luther King Sr. was inspired by his religious faith so much that he decided to make a major change in his life to show support of it. This shows how religion can be used to unite people together due to a common goal in religion and civil rights to perform collective action.
However, with this name and the religious meaning behind it, MLK Jr. did not want to be the leader of a huge movement or to take part in religious politics. All he wanted was to be a good father to his children, husband to his wife, and a minister who had a national voice. He used his position to speak to millions of people through radio and television to provide a voice of conscience to Christians all over the nation. He was an extremely good speaker and became the voice of the civil rights movement starting around the 1950s Magagna Mar. 2).
Lei 2
His voice began in Montgomery, Alabama. Buses were segregated to separate people of color from those who came from white descent. Lots of African American women worked …show more content…
2).
This is where religion and collective action begins to take place in the civil rights movement.
Martin Luther King Jr. believed that faith and god were the driving force in his position in the civil rights movement. Despite the fact that he did not want this for himself, as previously mentioned, he thought that it was divine fate and an act of his religion that drew him to be the center of this movement. Since he was in a position of power with his church as well as his personal relationship with President Lyndon B. Johnson, he tried to figure out how he could use this to mobilize people in order to gather support (Magagna Mar. 2). Through his religion, Martin
Luther King Jr. was able to use it as a point of support in order to gain traction in the movement to perform this collective action to create change in the ways that different races were treated unequal. He did this by speaking to those who were deeply religious because he believed that due to religion, that he could gather support based on their morals and beliefs. By doing this, he was able to reach out to more churches outside of his own to gain more and more supporters