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 worlds unstable politics.The present volume considers the case of Africa the region with the worlds fastest expanding population.