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