Christianity and democratisation from pious subjects to critical participants / John Anderson.

By:

Anderson, John [Author]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Publication details: Manchester, UK ; Manchester University Press ; (c)2009.; New York : Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, (c)2009.Description: 1 online resource (x, 273 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781847792617

Other title:

Christianity and democratization

Subject(s):

Democracy -- Religious aspects -- Christianity

Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

BR115 .C475 2009

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Contents:

Democracy and the Christian tradition -- The Catholic 'third wave': undermining authoritarianism -- The Catholic 'third wave': creating a new order -- The Orthodox hesitation: church, state and nation -- The Orthodox hesitation: the 'liberal-democracy' paradox -- The Protestant ethic revisited: conservative Christianity and the quality of American democracy -- The Protestant ethic revisited: the Pentecostal explosion as democratic hindrance or support? -- Conclusion.

Summary: This text brings together a wide range of scholarship to examine the relationship between Christianity and democratisation. It offers new insights into how and why this relationship had developed, and explores all the major Christian traditions including the Eastern Orthodox engagement with politics.

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Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction -- Democracy and the Christian tradition -- The Catholic 'third wave': undermining authoritarianism -- The Catholic 'third wave': creating a new order -- The Orthodox hesitation: church, state and nation -- The Orthodox hesitation: the 'liberal-democracy' paradox -- The Protestant ethic revisited: conservative Christianity and the quality of American democracy -- The Protestant ethic revisited: the Pentecostal explosion as democratic hindrance or support? -- Conclusion.

This text brings together a wide range of scholarship to examine the relationship between Christianity and democratisation. It offers new insights into how and why this relationship had developed, and explores all the major Christian traditions including the Eastern Orthodox engagement with politics.

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