03067nam 2200601 a 450 991046562380332120200520144314.01-78170-200-41-84779-261-8(CKB)2560000000085821(EBL)1069614(OCoLC)818847361(SSID)ssj0000712738(PQKBManifestationID)12280893(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000712738(PQKBWorkID)10645433(PQKB)10008731(StDuBDS)EDZ0000086942(MiAaPQ)EBC1069614(MiAaPQ)EBC4083731(Au-PeEL)EBL1069614(CaPaEBR)ebr10623286(CaONFJC)MIL843686(EXLCZ)99256000000008582120090917d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrChristianity and democratisation[electronic resource] from pious subjects to critical participants /John AndersonManchester, U.K. ;New York Manchester University Press ;New York Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan20091 online resource (289 p.)Perspectives on democratic practiceDescription based upon print version of record.1-84779-711-3 0-7190-7738-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. [258]-268) and index.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.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; anPerspectives on democratic practice (Manchester, England)DemocracyReligious aspectsChristianityElectronic books.DemocracyReligious aspectsChristianity.261.7Anderson John361184MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465623803321Christianity and democratisation1927852UNINA