caa a22 4500 445822511 CHVBK 20180317145248.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11186-011-9148-2 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11186-011-9148-2 Stamatov Peter Department of Sociology, Yale University, 06520-8265, New Haven, CT, USA aut The religious field and the path-dependent transformation of popular politics in the Anglo-American world, 1770-1840 [Elektronische Daten] [Peter Stamatov] This article examines the formative influence of the organizational field of religion on emerging modern forms of popular political mobilization in Britain and the United States in the early nineteenth century when a transition towards enduring campaigns of extended geographical scale occurred. The temporal ordering of mobilization activities reveals the strong presence of religious constituencies and religious organizational models in the mobilizatory sequences that first instituted a mass-produced popular politics. Two related yet analytically distinct generative effects of the religious field can be discerned. First, in both cases the transition toward modern forms of popular mobilization was driven by the religious institutionalization of organizational forms of centralized voluntarism that facilitated extensive collective action. Second, the adoption of different varieties of the same organizational forms led to important divergences. The spread in the United States of societies for moral reformation—in contrast to their non-survival in Britain—steered popular politics there towards a more moralistic framing of public issues. These findings indicate the importance of the organizational field of religion for the configuration of modern forms of popular collective action and confirm the analytical importance of religion's organizational aspects for the study of collective action. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2011 Organizational structure nationallicence Petitions nationallicence Religion nationallicence Sequence nationallicence Social movements nationallicence Social change nationallicence Theory and Society Springer Netherlands 40/4(2011-07-01), 437-473 0304-2421 40:4<437 2011 40 11186 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11186-011-9148-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11186-011-9148-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Stamatov Peter Department of Sociology, Yale University, 06520-8265, New Haven, CT, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Theory and Society Springer Netherlands 40/4(2011-07-01), 437-473 0304-2421 40:4<437 2011 40 11186 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer