Religion can act as a form of resistance to the powerful, and as an agent of social change, and not simply as a conservative force, as the following suggests:
- Some early Christian sects opposed Roman rule.
- Islam, particularly Islam fundamentalism, is often a vehicle for resisting the influences of Western CULTURAL IMPERIALISM.
- In Iran, Islam produced revolutionary change to overthrow the Shah establishing the Islam republic in 1978/9.
- In South America in the 1960s/70s. Roman Catholic Priests played a major role in fighting against political dictatorship and poverty.
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