Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Africa

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.

ISBN 0195308026   Pages 298 ISBN13 9780195308020 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Oxford University Press Inc   Weight (grammes) 423 Imprint Oxford University Press Inc   Published in New York Format Paperback   Series title Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in the Global South Publication date 01 Jan 2007   Height (mm) 234 Library of Congress 2005031888   Width (mm) 156 DEWEY 230   Spine width (mm) 17 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Professional / Scholarly

		Preface by Timothy Samuel Shah
		Introduction: Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Africa by Terence O. Ranger		3
1		Evangelicals, Muslims, and Democracy: With Particular Reference to the Declaration of Sharia in Northern Nigeria by Cyril Imo		37
2		Evangelical Attitudes toward Democracy in Kenya by John Karanja		67
3		President Frederick Chiluba and Zambia: Evangelicals and Democracy in a "Christian Nation" by Isabel Apawo Phiri		95
4		Foundations for Democracy in Zimbabwean Evangelical Christianity by Isabel Mukonyora		131
5		Evangelicals and Democracy in Mozambique by Teresa Cruz e Silva		161
6		From Apartheid to the New Dispensation: Evangelicals and the Democratization of South Africa by Anthony Balcomb		191
7		Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Africa: A Response by Paul Gifford		225
		Afterword by Terence O. Ranger		231
		References		243
		Index		261

"This impressive collection of essays represents a major contribution to the study of Africa's fast-growing Christianity, and to the larger question of the interface of religion and democracy. It deserves a wide audience." --Philip Jenkins, author of The New Faces of Christianity: Believing theBible in the Global South

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