{"product_id":"9780199884056","title":"Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Africa","description":"In recent decades, Christianity has acquired millions of new adherents in Africa, the region with the world's fastest-expanding population. What role has this development of evangelical Christianity played in Africa's democratic history? To what extent do its churches affect its politics? By taking a historical view and focusing specifically on the events of the past few years, \u003cem\u003eEvangelical Christianity and Democracy in Africa\u003c\/em\u003e seeks to explore these questions, offering individual case studies of six countries: Nigeria, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Kenya, Zambia, and Mozambique. Unlike most analyses of democracy which come from a secular Western tradition, these contributors, mainly younger scholars based in Africa, bring first-hand knowledge to their chapters and employ both field and archival research to develop their data and analyses. The result is a groundbreaking work that will be indispensable to everyone concerned with the future of this volatile region.  \u003cem\u003eEvangelical Christianity and Democracy in Africa\u003c\/em\u003e is one of four volumes in the series \u003cem\u003eEvangelical Christianity and Democracy in the Global South\u003c\/em\u003e, which seeks to answer the question: What happens when a revivalist religion based on scriptural orthodoxy participates in the volatile politics of the Third World? 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.","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47067243053296,"sku":"9780199884056","price":101.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780199884056_p0.jpg?v=1763673183","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780199884056","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}