TY - BOOK ID - 29009428 TI - Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Africa AU - RANGER, Terence O. (ed.) AU - Center for information and advice on harmful sectarian organizations PY - 2008 SN - 9780195174779 9780195308020 0195174771 0195308026 9786611851620 1435652886 1281851620 0199721238 019987185X PB - New York, NY Oxford University Press, Inc. DB - UniCat KW - Evangelicalism KW - -Democracy KW - -Christianity and politics KW - -261.8*93 KW - 261.8*93 Evangelicals KW - Evangelicals KW - Christianity KW - Church and politics KW - Politics and Christianity KW - Politics and the church KW - Political science KW - Self-government KW - Equality KW - Representative government and representation KW - Republics KW - Evangelical religion KW - Protestantism, Evangelical KW - Evangelical Revival KW - Fundamentalism KW - Pietism KW - Protestantism KW - Political aspects KW - -Religious aspects KW - -Christianity. KW - Christianity and politics KW - Democracy KW - 261.8*93 KW - Religious aspects&delete& KW - Religious aspects KW - Christianity. KW - Christianity and democracy KW - Evangelical Christianity KW - democracy KW - Africa KW - Islam KW - Sharia KW - Frederick Chiluba KW - Apartheid KW - the new dispensation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:29009428 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. ER -