Introduction : why emotions matter / Jeff Goodwin, James M. Jasper, and Francesca Polletta -- Part 1: Theoretical perspectives -- Social movements and the focus of emotional attention / Randall Collins -- Putting emotions in their place / Craig Calhoun -- A structural approach to social movement emotions / Theodore Kemper -- The business of social movements / Frank Dobbin -- Part 2: Cultural contexts -- Emotions and political identity : mobilizing affection for the polity / Mabel Berezin -- A revolution of the soul : transformative experiences and immediate abolition / Michael P. Young -- Revenge of the shamed : the Christian right's emotional culture war / Arlene Stein -- Part 3: Recruitment and internal dynamics -- Rock the boat, don't rock the boat, baby : ambivalence and the emergence of militant AIDS activism / Deborah Gould -- The social structure of moral outrage in recruitment to the U.S. Central America peace movement / Sharon Erickson Nepstad and Christian Smith -- Fear, laughter, and collective power : the making of Solidarity at the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk, Poland, August 1980 / Colin Barker -- The felt politics of charity : serving "the ambassadors of God" and saving "the sinking classes" / Rebecca Anne Allahyari -- Animal rights and the politics of emotion : folk constructions of emotion in the animal rights movement / Julian McAllister Groves -- Part 4: The emotions of conflict -- Emotional strategies : the collective reconstruction and display of oppositional emotions in the movement against child sexual abuse / Nancy Whittier -- Finding emotion in social movement processes : Irish land movement metaphors and narratives / Anne Kane -- The emotional benefits of insurgency in El Salvador / Elisabeth Jean Wood -- Emotion work in high-risk social movements : managing fear in the U.S. and East German civil rights movements / Jeff Goodwin and Steven Pfaff -- Conclusion : second that emotion? Lessons from once-novel concepts in social movement research / Francesca Polletta and Edwin Amenta