EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANITY AND DEMOCRACY IN AFRICA by Terence O. Ranger (Editor) ( 9780195308020 )

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EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANITY AND DEMOCRACY IN AFRICA

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Terence O. Ranger (Editor)

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0195308026

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OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC

Pub. date:

1 March, 2008

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304

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What happens when a revivalist religion based on scriptural orthodoxy participates in the volatile politics of the Third World? This volume offers a comparative perspective on a critical issue: the often combustible interaction of resurgent religion and the developing world's unstable politics. It considers the case of Africa.

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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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