Evangelical Christianity and democracy in Africa
This is one of four projected volumes to emerge from a massive, Pew-funded study that sought to answer the question: What happens when a revivalist religion based on scriptural orthodoxy participates in the volatile politics of the Third World? Is the result a democratic politics of the ballot box,...
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| Medienart: | Druck Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Oxford [u.a.]
Oxford University Press
c2008
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| In: | Jahr: 2008 |
| Schriftenreihe/Zeitschrift: | Evangelical Christianity and democracy in the Global South
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| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Subsaharisches Afrika
/ Protestantismus
/ Demokratie
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| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Aufsatzsammlung
B Democracy Religious aspects Christianity B Katholische Kirche B Evangelicalism Political aspects (Africa, Sub-Saharan) B Christianity and politics (Africa, Sub-Saharan) |
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| Parallele Ausgabe: | Elektronisch
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| Zusammenfassung: | This is one of four projected volumes to emerge from a massive, Pew-funded study that sought to answer the question: What happens when a revivalist religion based on scriptural orthodoxy participates in the volatile politics of the Third World? Is the result a democratic politics of the ballot box, or is it more like an authoritarian politics of command from on high? Does the evangelical faith of the Bible hinder or promote a politics of the ballot box? At a time when the global-political impact of another revivalist and scriptural religion, Islam, fuels vexed debate among analysts the world over, these volumes offer an unusual comparative perspective on a critical issue: the often combustible interaction of resurgent religion and the developing world's unstable politics.The present volume considers the case of Africa, the region with the world's fastest expanding population. |
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| Beschreibung: | Formerly CIP Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-259) and index |
| ISBN: | 0195174771 |