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New PDF release: Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Africa

By Terence O. Ranger

ISBN-10: 0195174771

ISBN-13: 9780195174779

ISBN-10: 0195308026

ISBN-13: 9780195308020

In fresh many years, Christianity has obtained thousands of latest adherents in Africa, the quarter with the world's fastest-expanding inhabitants. What function has this improvement of evangelical Christianity performed in Africa's democratic background? To what quantity do its church buildings have an effect on its politics? by means of taking a old view and focusing in particular at the occasions of the previous few years, Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Africa seeks to discover those questions, delivering person case reviews of six international locations: Nigeria, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Kenya, Zambia, and Mozambique. not like such a lot analyses of democracy which come from a mundane Western culture, those participants, typically more youthful students dependent in Africa, carry first-hand wisdom to their chapters and hire either box and archival examine to advance their info and analyses. the result's a groundbreaking paintings that might be necessary to each person excited about the way forward for this unstable zone.

Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Africa is one among 4 volumes within the sequence Evangelical Christianity and Democracy within the international South, which seeks to reply to the query: What occurs whilst a revivalist faith according to scriptural orthodoxy participates within the unstable politics of the 3rd international? At a time whilst the global-political impression of one other revivalist and scriptural faith -- Islam -- fuels vexed debate between analysts internationally, those volumes supply an strange comparative point of view on a serious factor: the customarily flamable interplay of resurgent faith and the constructing world's volatile politics.

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