Religion, Protest, and Social Upheaval

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<p><b>Represents some of the best, cutting-edge thinking available on multiple forms of social upheaval and related grassroots movements.</b><br/>From the January 2017 Women¿s March to the August 2017 events in Charlottesville and the 2020 protests for racial justice in the wake of George Floyd¿s murder, social upheaval and protest have loomed large in the United States in recent years. The varied, sometimes conflicting role of religious believers, communities, and institutions in such events and movements calls for scholarly analysis. Arising from a conference held at the College of the Holy Cross in November 2017, <i>Religion, Protest, and Social Upheaval </i>gathers contributions from ten scholars in religious studies, theology and ethics, and gender studies¿from seasoned experts to emerging voices¿to illuminate this tumultuous era of history and the complex landscape of social action for economic, racial, political, and sexual and gender justice.<br/>The contributors consider the