What I resist persists: the Protect LDS Children movement as a narrative space of dissent

ABSTRACT

This study examined 250 posts to the Protect LDS Children website, a counter-institutional movement seeking the end of private youth interviews with male Bishops that ask sexually explicit questions in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Narrative analysis suggests two theoretical considerations: first, results suggest a definition of dissent effectiveness that includes discursive spaces of sensemaking; and second, sites of dissent may provide a space of narratively organizing around shared adverse experiences.

KEYWORDS:

• Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• totalistic organizations
• dissent narrative

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