Structure and Dynamics of Religious Insurgency: Students and the Spread of the Reformation

Autor/inn/en	Kim, Hyojoung; Pfaff, Steven
Titel	Structure and Dynamics of Religious Insurgency: Students and the Spread of the Reformation
Quelle	In: American Sociological Review, 77 (2012) 2, S.188-215 (28 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0003-1224
DOI	10.1177/0003122411435905
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Catholics; Protestants; Conflict; World History; Religious Factors; Hypothesis Testing; Social Psychology; Social Change; Time Perspective; Group Dynamics; Information Dissemination; College Students; Change Agents; Ideology; Synthesis; Cultural Context; Political Power; Economic Factors; Context Effect; Individual Characteristics; Young Adults; Educational Attainment; Underemployment; Social Networks; School Community Relationship; Institutional Characteristics; Universities; Statistical Significance; Europe; Germany; Switzerland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Katholik; Protestantism; Protestantismus; Konflikt; Weltgeschichte; Hypothesenprüfung; Hypothesentest; Sozialpsychologie; Sozialer Wandel; Zeitbezug; Gruppendynamik; Informationsverbreitung; Collegestudent; Ideologie; Politische Macht; Ökonomischer Faktor; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Unterbeschäftigung; Social network; Soziales Netzwerk; University; Universität; Europa; Deutschland; Schweiz
Abstract	The Protestant Reformation swept across Central Europe in the early-sixteenth century, leaving cities divided into Evangelical and Catholic camps as some instituted reforms and others remained loyal to the Roman Church. In offering a new explanation of the Reformation, we develop a theory that identifies ideologically mobilized students as bridge actors--that is, agents of religious contention who helped concatenate incidents of local insurgency into a loosely organized Evangelical movement by bridging structural holes. Building on existing literature, we offer a novel way to measure the influence of contending religious movements through university enrollments; we propose that the institution of reform can be partially explained by the varying degree of exposure that cities had to Evangelical activist and Catholic loyalist university students. Based on statistical analysis of a novel dataset comprising cities in the Holy Roman Empire with a population of 2,000 or more from 1523 to 1545, we find support for the role of university students as bridge actors linking critical communities at universities to arenas of urban contention. The greater a city's exposure to heterodox ideology through city-to-university ties, the greater its odds of instituting the Reformation. (Contains 1 figure, 5 tables, and 5 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10