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This book illuminates the central role played by international
nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) in the emergence and
development of a comprehensive world polity. The contributors argue
that the enormous proliferation of INGOs since 1875--including
international environmental organizations, human rights groups,
bodies formed to regulate technical standards, and economic
development organizations, among others--both reflects and
contributes to the spread of global institutions and cultural
principles based on models of rationality, individualism, progress,
and universalism. The contributors contrast this world-polity
perspective to other approaches to understanding globalization,
including realist and neo-realist analyses in the field of
international relations, and world-system theory and interstate
competition theory in sociology.
The volume considers transnational organizing as a historical
process of the creation of global rules and norms, changing over
time, that have identifiable effects on social organization at the
national and local levels. The chapters provide empirical support
for this approach, identifying specific mechanisms that translate
global cultural assumptions and prescriptions into local social
activity, such as the creation of state agencies, the formulation
of government policies, and the emergence of social movements. The
first part of the book deals with social movement INGOs, including
environmental groups, women's rights organizations, the Esperanto
movement, and the International Red Cross. The second part treats
technical and economic bodies, including the International
Organization for Standardization, population policy groups,
development organizations, and international professional science
associations.
The history of Christianity in America has been marked by recurring
periods of religious revivals or awakenings. In this book, George
M. Thomas addresses the economic and political context of
evangelical revivalism and its historical linkages with economic
expansion and Republicanism in the nineteenth century. Thomas
argues that large-scale change results in social movements that
articulate new organizations and definitions of individual,
society, authority, and cosmos. Drawing on religious newspapers,
party policies and agendas, and quantitative analyses of voting
patterns and census data, he claims that revivalism in this period
framed the rules and identities of the expanding market economy and
the national policy.
"Subtle and complex. . . . Fascinating."--Randolph Roth,
"Pennsylvania History"
"["Revivalism and Cultural Change"] should be read with interest by
those interested in religious movements as well as the connections
among religion, economics, and politics."--Charles L. Harper,
"Contemporary Sociology"
"Readers old and new stand to gain much from Thomas's sophisticated
study of the macrosociology of religion in the United States during
the nineteenth century. . . . He has given the sociology of
religion its best quantitative study of revivalism since the close
of the 1970s."--"Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion"
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