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 1970s. Successive chapters deal with: the Roman Catholic conversion to democracy and the contribution of that church to democratisation; the Eastern Orthodox ‘hesitation’ abou...
Inhoudsopgave
Preface and acknowledgements
1.Introduction
2.Democracy and the Christian tradition
3.The Catholic third wave: undermining authoritarianism
4.The Catholic third wa...
Over de auteur
John Anderson is Professor of International Relations at the University of St Andrews
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