Christianity and democratisation [[electronic resource] ] : from pious subjects to critical participants / / John Anderson
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Anderson John
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| Titolo: |
Christianity and democratisation [[electronic resource] ] : from pious subjects to critical participants / / John Anderson
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| Pubblicazione: | Manchester, U.K. ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press |
| New York, : Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2009 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (289 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 261.7 |
| Soggetto topico: | Democracy - Religious aspects - Christianity |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [258]-268) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Christianity and democratisation |
| ISBN: | 1-78170-200-4 |
| 1-84779-261-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910465623803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Perspectives on democratic practice (Manchester, England)