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Solidarity --- Christianity and politics --- Christianity and international affairs --- Insurgency --- Missionaries --- Missionaries

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Many Americans assume that the Catholic Church is inherently conservative, based on its stances on abortion, contraception, and divorce. Yet there is a longstanding tradition of progressive Catholic movements in the United States that have addressed a variety of issues from labor, war, immigration, and environmental protection, to human rights, women's rights, exploitive development practices, and bellicose foreign policies. These Catholic social movements have helped to shift the Church from an institution that had historically supported incumbent governments and political elites to a Church that has increasingly sided with the vulnerable and oppressed. This book provides a concise history of progressively oriented Catholic Social Thought, which conveys the Catholic Church's position on a variety of social justice concerns. Sharon Erickson Nepstad introduces key papal encyclicals and other church documents, showing how lay Catholics in the United States have put these ideas into practice through a creative and sometimes provocative political engagement. Nepstad also explores how these progressive movements have pressured the religious hierarchy to respond to pressing social issues, such as women's ordination, conscription, and the morality of nuclear deterrence policies. 'Catholic Social Activism' vividly depicts how these progressive movements have helped to shape the religious landscape of the United States, and how they have provoked controversy and debate among Catholics and non-Catholics alike.

Church and social problems --- Christian sociology --- Catholic Church. --- Katholische Kirche --- Catholic Church --- USA --- United States. --- Catholic Climate Change. --- Catholic Social Teachings. --- Catholic Social Thought. --- Catholic Worker. --- Catholic feminism. --- Central America solidarity. --- Central America. --- César Chávez. --- Dolores Huerta. --- Dorothy Day. --- Environmentalism. --- Laudato Si. --- Mary Daly. --- National Religious Partnership for the Environment. --- New Sanctuary Movement. --- Pacem in Terris. --- Pax Christi. --- Pledge of Resistance. --- Plowshares movement. --- Pope Francis. --- Pope John XXIII. --- Pope Leo XIII. --- Pope Pius XI. --- Quadragesimo Anno. --- Rerum Novarum. --- Roman Catholic Womenpriests. --- Rosemary Radford Ruether. --- Sanctuary movement. --- School of the Americas Watch. --- Social Catholicism. --- United Farm Workers. --- Witness for Peace. --- Women-Church. --- contraception. --- draft board raids. --- draft card burnings. --- environmental movement. --- immigrant rights. --- immigration. --- just peace. --- just war doctrine. --- liberation theology. --- lived religion. --- nonviolence. --- ordination of women. --- pacifism. --- peace movements. --- reproductive rights. --- solidarity.

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This special issue of Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change analyzes examples of nonviolent resistance from across the globe. It covers how regime changes, political movements and nonviolent unrest develop and then shape the political decisions of both civil society and the state. Section one is focused on the strategic interactions between nonviolent movements and the state. This includes discussions on the civil rights movement in Northern Ireland, youth movements in Post-Communist states and nonviolent Islamic movements in Turkey. The second and third sections examine regime conflicts and the global diffusion of nonviolent movements. Here chapters center on the Iranian Revolution, social psychological approaches to nonviolent civil resistance, the Palestinian human rights movements, the efforts of nonviolent INGOs and the Nashville civil rights movement. This volume is essential reading because it introduces new analytical concepts and theoretical frameworks for understanding nonviolent resistance, merging social movement scholarship with nonviolent studies in fresh and exciting ways.

Nonviolence. --- Civil disobedience. --- Civil resistance --- Disobedience, Civil --- Non-violence --- Government, Resistance to --- Pacifism --- Political Science --- Politics & government. --- Non-governmental organizations (NGOs). --- Government, Resistance to. --- Social movements. --- NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations). --- Peace. --- Political Process --- General. --- Non-resistance to government --- Resistance to government --- Political science --- Political violence --- Insurgency --- Nonviolence --- Revolutions --- Movements, Social --- Social history --- Social psychology --- Political resistance