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From Pews to Politics: Religious Sermons and Political Participation in Africa

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From Pews to Politics: Religious Sermons and Political Participation in Africa - McClendon, Gwyneth H., and Riedl, Rachel Beatty
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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 ...

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From Pews to Politics: Religious Sermons and Political Participation in Africa 2022, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9781108707978

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From Pews to Politics: Religious Sermons and Political Participation in Africa 2019, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9781108486576

Hardcover