Christianity and democratisation from pious subjects to critical participants / [electronic resource] :
Christianity and democratization
John Anderson.
- Manchester, U.K. ; New York : New York : Manchester University Press ; Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
- x, 273 p.
- Perspectives on democratic practice .
- Perspectives on democratic practice (Manchester, England) .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [258]-268) 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.
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