William Louis Poteat: A Leader of the Progressive-Era South

Hill, Samuel S.; Hall, Randal L.

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“…Fundamentalists during these years sought both to ban the teaching of evolution and to gain control of the mainline Protestant denominations (Larson, ; Marsden, ). In the parlance of Fligstein and McAdam (), colleges and universities such as Wake Forest University, a Southern Baptist school in the neighboring state of North Carolina (Gatewood, ; Hall, ), became battlegrounds in which the incumbents in two different SAFs – conservative Protestantism and higher education – struggled for control.…”

Section: Heresy Fundamentalism and Modernity At Mercer University mentioning

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Strategic Action Fields inUSHigher Education: The 1939Mercer University Heresy Trial

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2014

J Historical Sociology

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This paper uses McAdam's (2012, 2011) theory of the strategic action field, or "SAF," to highlight the ways in which individuals can act within cultural and material constraints to shape social processes. It applies these concepts to the Mercer University heresy trial of 1939, in which a group of students backed by fundamentalists from the conservative Protestant movement accused members of the University's faculty of unbelief. By understanding the organization, the social movement, and the higher education industry as "SAFs," the theory explains how the trial reached its unusual outcome, and suggests implications for broader understandings of organizational change.

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Section: Heresy Fundamentalism and Modernity At Mercer University mentioning

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Strategic Action Fields inUSHigher Education: The 1939Mercer University Heresy Trial

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William Louis Poteat: A Leader of the Progressive-Era South

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Strategic Action Fields inUSHigher Education: The 1939Mercer University Heresy Trial

Strategic Action Fields inUSHigher Education: The 1939Mercer University Heresy Trial

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