RT Book
T1 Evangelical Christianity and democracy in Africa
T2 Evangelical Christianity and democracy in the Global South
A2 Ranger, Terence O. 1929-2015
LA English
PP Oxford u.a.
PB Oxford University Press
YR 2008
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/564805939
AB 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.
NO Formerly CIP
NO Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-259) and index
CN a
SN 0-19-517477-1
SN 0-19-530802-6
SN 978-0-19-517477-9
SN 978-0-19-530802-0
K1 Evangelicalism : Political aspects : Africa, Sub-Saharan
K1 Democracy : Religious aspects : Christianity
K1 Christianity and politics : Africa, Sub-Saharan
K1 Katholische Kirche
K1 Aufsatzsammlung