Christianity and democratisation
Subtitle: from pious subjects to critical participants
By: John Anderson.
Series: Perspectives on democratic practice; Perspectives on democratic practice (Manchester, England)
Publisher: Manchester University Press; Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Manchester, UK; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9780719077388
Subjects: Democracy -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Other titles: Christianity and democratization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [258]-268) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Democracy and the Christian tradition; title: The Catholic 'third wave': undermining authoritarianism; title: The Catholic 'third wave': creating a new order; title: The Orthodox hesitation: church, state and nation; title: The Orthodox hesitation: the 'liberal-democracy' paradox; title: The Protestant ethic revisited: conservative Christianity and the quality of American democracy; title: The Protestant ethic revisited: the Pentecostal explosion as democratic hindrance or support?; title: Conclusion.