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Autore |
Anderson John |
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Titolo |
Christianity and democratisation [[electronic resource] ] : from pious subjects to critical participants / / John Anderson |
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Manchester, U.K. ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press |
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New York, : Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-78170-200-4 |
1-84779-261-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (289 p.) |
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Collana |
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Perspectives on democratic practice |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Democracy - Religious aspects - Christianity |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [258]-268) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book examines the contribution of different Christian traditions to the waves of democratisation that have swept various parts of the world in recent decades. It offers a historical overview of Christianity's engagement with the development of democracy, before focusing in detail on the period since the 1970's. Successive chapters deal with: the Roman Catholic conversion to democracy and the contribution of that church to democratisation; the Eastern Orthodox 'hesitation' about democracy; the alleged threat to American democracy posed by the politicisation of conservative Protestantism; an |
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