Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 274 Seiten)
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ISBN:
9781108761208
Content:
Does religion influence political participation? This book takes up this pressing debate using Christianity in sub-Saharan Africa as its empirical base to demonstrate that religious teachings communicated in sermons can influence both the degree and the form of citizens' political participation. McClendon and Riedl document some of the current diversity of sermon content in contemporary Christian houses of worship and then use a combination of laboratory experiments, observational survey data, focus groups, and case comparisons in Zambia, Uganda, and Kenya to interrogate the impact of sermon exposure on political participation and the longevity of that impact. Pews to Politics in Africa leverages the pluralism of sermons in sub-Saharan Africa to gain insight into the content of cultural influences and their consequences for how ordinary citizens participate in politics.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Sep 2019)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108486576
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108707978
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe McClendon, Gwyneth H., 1983 - From pews to politics Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019 ISBN 9781108486576
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
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Ethnology
Keywords:
Subsaharisches Afrika
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Christentum
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Politische Beteiligung
DOI:
10.1017/9781108761208
