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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 Latin America, where evangelical Protestantism is increasingly challenging the historical Catholic hegemony in the religious sphere.

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• Full title: Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Latin America
• Author: Paul Freston
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280
• EAN: 9780195308037
• ISBN: 0195308034
• ID: 04517248
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Weight: 404 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 156 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 17. April 2008

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