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Title Evangelical Christianity and democracy in Africa / edited by Terence O. Ranger
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xxx, 267 pages)
Series Evangelical Christianity and democracy in the Global South
Evangelical Christianity and democracy in the Global South.
Contents Introduction : Evangelical Christianity and democracy in Africa / Terence O. Ranger -- Evangelicals, Muslims, and democracy : with particular reference to the Declaration of Sharia in northern Nigeria / Cyril Imo -- Evangelical attitudes toward democracy in Kenya / John Karanja -- President Frederick Chiluba and Zambia : Evangelicals and democracy in a "Christian nation" / Isabel Apawo Phiri -- Foundations for democracy in Zimbabwean Evangelical Christianity / Isabel Mukonyora -- Evangelicals and democracy in Mozambique / Teresa Cruz e Silva -- From apartheid to the new dispensation : Evangelicals and the democratization of South Africa / Anthony Balcomb -- Evangelical Christianity and democracy in Africa : a response / Paul Gifford
Summary 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? This book considers the case of Africa
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-259) and index
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Subject Evangelicalism -- Political aspects -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
Democracy -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Christianity and politics -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Advocacy.
Christianity and politics
Democracy -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Evangelicalism -- Political aspects
Demokratie
Protestantismus
Sub-Saharan Africa
Subsaharisches Afrika
Form Electronic book
Author Ranger, T. O.
ISBN 9780199721238
0199721238
0195174771
9780195174779
0195308026
9780195308020