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Religion and Social Change, Evaluation - Coggle Diagram
Religion and Social Change
Civil Rights Movement
1954 Civil Rights Movement begins (Martin Luther King) - 1064 Segregation banned.
Bruce
Religion was an ideological resources which led to the civil rights movement being successful.
Supported people campaigning (3 ways)
Black clergy taught it was un-christian for white priests to support segregation.
Black led churches from the Southern States campaigned for support across the US - changed public opinion
Acting as a neutral organiser
Churches were viewed as outside politics and respected by both sides. They provided settings for discussing change.
New Christian Right
Bruce
They failed because they pushed against Public opinion and values of US society
Americans believe in liberty ie personal freedom
American reject government based on religious teachings
Beliefs
Fundamentalist christians
Bible is the 'literal' truth of God
Aim to return America to God
Abolish divorce and Gay rights and womens rights
Traditional nuclear families and gender roles
Marxism
Religion has a Dual Character
Engles
Religion disguises and justifies class inequality; PREVENTING social change
Religion teaches freedom from poverty and injustice; INSPIRING social change
Less senior priests are likely to oppose society's inequalities
Religion is a force for social change
Religion is Ruling class ideology: religious ideas legitimate class inequality and capitalism
Religion is under the control of the bourgeoisie
Neo-Marxism
Bloch
Religion can block social change
It can inspire change - principle of hope (dream for a better world/utopian)
Provides utopian views
Liberation Theology
CC 'official' position was priests should stay out of politics
Peasants shouldn't revolt
1960s: Some countries in Latin America were controlled by violent military dictatorships
Poverty and human rights abuses were widespread
1960 Catholic teachings that radicalised priests to take the side of peasants
Supported social change
Priests educated and organised the peasants to resist the dictatorships
Priests were only authority figures criticising military dictatorships
1960-1980 protection of Human Rights improved
1980s liberation theology was banned by the pope
Casanova
Catholic church played essential role in resisting the dictatorships and introducing democracy
Maduro
Religion can be a force for revolutionary change that serves the poor
Religion doesn't always serve the needs of the RC (act as conservative force)
Evaluation
Limitations
Religion didn't change class inequality
Religion only leads to LIMITED social change
African Americans (US) & Peasants (Latin America) are still discriminated against
Racism still exists
Strengths
Evidence
Civil rights movement
Liberation theology