Author: Paul Freston
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: evangelical, democracy, christianity, south, global, latin, america
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2008-04-11
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 0195174763
ISBN-13: 9780195174762

In Latin America, evangelical Protestantism poses an increasing challenge to Catholicism’s long-established religious hegemony. At the same time, the region is among the most generally democratic outside the West, despite often being labeled as ’underdeveloped.’ Scholars disagree whether Latin American Protestantism, as a fast-growing and predominantly lower-class phenomenon, will encourage a political culture that is repressive and authoritarian, or if it will have democratizing effects. Drawing from a range of sources, Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Latin America

Author: David Halloran Lumsdaine
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: evangelical, democracy, christianity, south, asia, global
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2009-03-13
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 0195308247
ISBN-13: 9780195308242

Although a minority of the Asian population, Protestants in Asia are a fast-growing group. What are the political implications of this evangelical Christianity? In some cases, religion has enabled poor and marginalized people to gain greater prosperity, self-confidence and civic skills, and more open-minded and democratic societies. But does religion have the kind of cultural currency needed to generate political changes in governments such as China’s? Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Asia provides six case studies on China, Western India, Northeast India, Indonesia, South Kore

Author: Terence O. Ranger
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: evangelical, democracy, christianity, south, africa, global
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2008-04-22
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 0195174771
ISBN-13: 9780195174779

In recent decades, Christianity has acquired millions of new adherents in Africa, the region with the world’s fastest-expanding population. What role has this development of evangelical Christianity played in Africa’s democratic history? To what extent do its churches affect its politics? By taking a historical view and focusing specifically on the events of the past few years, Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Africa seeks to explore these questions, offering individual case studies of six countries: Nigeria, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Kenya, Zambia, and Mozambique. Unlike mo

Author: Terence O. Ranger
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: evangelical, democracy, christianity, south, africa, global
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2008-04-22
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0195308026
ISBN-13: 9780195308020

In recent decades, Christianity has acquired millions of new adherents in Africa, the region with the world’s fastest-expanding population. What role has this development of evangelical Christianity played in Africa’s democratic history? To what extent do its churches affect its politics? By taking a historical view and focusing specifically on the events of the past few years, Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Africa seeks to explore these questions, offering individual case studies of six countries: Nigeria, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Kenya, Zambia, and Mozambique. Unlike mo

Author: W. R. Ward
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: awakening, evangelical, protestant
Number of Pages: 392
Published: 2002-04-11
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0521892325
ISBN-13: 9780521892322

This book marks a major development in our understanding of the religious history of both Europe and North America during the first half of the eighteenth century. It studies the early history of the Protestant revival movements from a pan-European, as well as Anglo-American viewpoint, and shows the interrelationships and movements among the major Protestant communities. It is a contribution to the history not only of religious belief and practice, but also to that of the successes and failures of eighteenth-century statecraft in dealing with problems of religious excitement and division durin

Author: Victor Shepherd
Publisher: Clements Publishing
Keywords: faith, evangelical
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 2006-03-21
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 1894667840
ISBN-13: 9781894667845

Author: Robert L. Thomas
Publisher: Kregel Academic & Professional
Keywords: old, versus, new, hermeneutics, evangelical
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 2003-01-13
List price: $27.99
ISBN-10: 082543839X
ISBN-13: 9780825438394

A thorough and competent examination of divergent hermeneutical methods widely used by evangelicals today. (20040603)