Moral Majority redivivus: Assertive religious politics and the threat to religious freedom and citizenship in Malawi

John de Gruchy’s 1995 work Christianity and Democracy: Theology for a Just World Order was published at a heady time, not only in society but in the ecumenical churches, who were prominent as “midwives of democracy.” While the changes in Eastern Europe and South Africa were in the foreground, the bo...

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Main Author: Tengatenga, James (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Stellenbosch University [2019]
In: Stellenbosch theological journal
Year: 2019, Volume: 5, Issue: 3, Pages: 165–182
IxTheo Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
FD Contextual theology
KBN Sub-Saharan Africa
NCD Political ethics
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