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Author Dowd, Robert Alfred, 1965- author.

Title Christianity, Islam and liberal democracy : lessons from Sub-Saharan Africa / Robert A. Dowd
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 224 pages)
Contents Introduction: Christianity, Islam, and liberal democracy -- Time, place, and the application of religion to politics -- The role of religious leaders -- The impact of religious communities -- A closer look at Nigeria, Senegal, and Uganda -- The curious case of Nigeria -- Important lessons and new questions
Summary Based largely on research conducted in Nigeria, and to a lesser extent on other parts of sub-Saharan Africa, this book points to qualitative data (i.e. narrative accounts of events and in-depth interviews) and quantitative data (i.e. mass survey research) to suggest that Christian and Islamic religious communities tend to become more conducive to actions and attitudes compatible with liberal democracy in religiously diverse and integrated settings than in religiously homogeneous settings or religiously diverse settings that are highly segregated along religious lines
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 7, 2015)
Subject Democracy -- Religious aspects.
Democracy -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
Democracy -- Nigeria
Christianity and politics -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
Christianity and politics -- Nigeria
Islam and politics -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
Islam and politics -- Nigeria
Cultural pluralism -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Religious aspects
Cultural pluralism -- Nigeria -- Religious aspects
Political culture -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
Political culture -- Nigeria
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Gaia & Earth Energies.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
Christianity and politics
Cultural pluralism -- Religious aspects
Democracy
Democracy -- Religious aspects
Islam and politics
Political culture
Sub-Saharan Africa
Nigeria
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780190225223
019022522X