Christianity and Democracy Today
International Perspectives
1st Edition
Published on 5. March 2025
Book
Hardback
142 pages
978-1-032-96576-5 (ISBN)
Description
This volume explores Christianity's relationship with democracy in a global perspective.
How are the various democratic ideals being addressed by influential Christian intellectuals, theologians, ethicists, churches and church leaders around the world today? The contributors reflect on the status of the democratic idea in the churches, theological academy and public religious life in a variety of social and political contexts. They consider how the democratic idea can be cultivated in Christian communities and intellectual traditions with a view to contemporary challenges.
This book will be of particular interest to scholars of religion, theology and political science.
How are the various democratic ideals being addressed by influential Christian intellectuals, theologians, ethicists, churches and church leaders around the world today? The contributors reflect on the status of the democratic idea in the churches, theological academy and public religious life in a variety of social and political contexts. They consider how the democratic idea can be cultivated in Christian communities and intellectual traditions with a view to contemporary challenges.
This book will be of particular interest to scholars of religion, theology and political science.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Postgraduate
Illustrations
1 s/w Tabelle
1 Tables, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
402 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-96576-5 (9781032965765)
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Persons
David P. Gushee is Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics at Mercer University, USA. He is also Chair of Christian Social Ethics at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Senior Research Fellow at the International Baptist Theological Study Centre in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Paul Silas Peterson is Privatdozent in the Faculty of Protestant Theology of the University of Tuebingen, Germany, and Protestant theologian at the Bundeswehr Centre of Military History and Social Sciences, Potsdam, Germany.
Paul Silas Peterson is Privatdozent in the Faculty of Protestant Theology of the University of Tuebingen, Germany, and Protestant theologian at the Bundeswehr Centre of Military History and Social Sciences, Potsdam, Germany.
Content
Introduction David P. Gushee and Paul Silas Peterson 1. Christianity and Democracy Today in the United States David P. Gushee 2. Christianity and Democracy Today in Europe Paul Silas Peterson 3. Christianity and the Struggle for Democracy in China Fuk-tsang Ying 4. Christian Conversion, Democracy and Minority Vulnerability in India and Neighboring Countries Chandra Mallampalli 5. Inside-Out or Outside-In: Christianity and Democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa Nicola de Jager 6. Christianity and Democracy Today in Latin America Paul Freston and Joanildo Burity 7. Democracy as a Theological Concept? Religious Narratives and Political Mythologies in the Russo-Ukrainian War Pavlo Smytsnyuk