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200 10$aChristianity and democratisation$b[electronic resource] $efrom pious subjects to critical participants /$fJohn Anderson
210   $aManchester, U.K. ;$aNew York $cManchester University Press ;$aNew York $cDistributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan$d2009
215   $a1 online resource (289 p.)
225 1 $aPerspectives on democratic practice
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a1-84779-711-3 
311   $a0-7190-7738-9 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [258]-268) and index.
327   $aIntroduction -- 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.
330   $aThis book examines the contribution of different Christian traditions to the waves of democratisation that have swept various parts of the world in recent decades. It offers a historical overview of Christianity's engagement with the development of democracy, before focusing in detail on the period since the 1970's. Successive chapters deal with: the Roman Catholic conversion to democracy and the contribution of that church to democratisation; the Eastern Orthodox 'hesitation' about democracy; the alleged threat to American democracy posed by the politicisation of conservative Protestantism; an
410  0$aPerspectives on democratic practice (Manchester, England)
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