The Unobtrusive Tactics of Religious Movements

摘要: Many religious and spiritual movements mobilize to establish sacred fields which influence everyday life in multiple social domains. Because these devout groups operate across many institutional fields, scholars of religiously motivated are uniquely poised contribute scholarship on multiinstitutional politics how change can be initiated influenced by external cultural movements. In this paper, I bring attention through unobtrusive political tactics build upon extant structures rather than contentious the focus most movement research. Based prior my own research, identify expand unobtrusive, nonconfrontational such as “discursive politics,” developing a “state within state,” “burrowing into” targeted organizations, “assimilating mainstream organizations. These mechanisms identified underdeveloped areas at intersection mobilization, organizational change, field development, provide platform future research build.