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Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Africa

In recent decades, Christianity has acquired millions of new adherents in Africa, the region with the world's fastest-expanding population. What role has this development of evangelical Christianity played in Africa's democratic history? To what extent do its churches affect its politics? By taking a historical view and focusing specifically on the events of the past few years, Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Africa seeks to explore these questions, offering individual case studies of six countries: Nigeria, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Kenya, Zambia, and Mozambique. Unlike most analyses of democracy which come from a secular Western tradition, these contributors, mainly younger scholars based in Africa, bring first-hand knowledge to their chapters and employ both field and archival research to develop their data and analyses. The result is a groundbreaking work that will be indispensable to everyone concerned with the future of this volatile region.

Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Africa is one of four volumes in the series Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in the Global South, which seeks to answer the question: What happens when a revivalist religion based on scriptural orthodoxy participates in the volatile politics of the Third World? 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.

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Judul Seri
Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in the Global South
No. Panggil
322.10 Ran E
Penerbit
USA : OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS.,
Deskripsi Fisik
298 PageS
Bahasa
English
ISBN/ISSN
978-0-19-517477-9
Klasifikasi
322.10
Tipe Isi
text
Tipe Media
computer
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Edisi
1st Edition
Subjek
Evangelicalism—Political aspects—Africa, Sub-Sahar
Democracy—Religious aspects—Christianity
Christianity and politics—Africa, Sub-Saharan
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