Evangelical Christianity and democratic pluralism in Asia : an introduction / David H. Lumsdaine -- The Christian community in China : the leaven effect / Kim-Kwong Chan -- Emulating Azariah : Evangelicals and social change in the Dangs / Sushil J. Aaron -- Ethnicity, civil society, and the church : the politics of Evangelical Christianity in Northeast India / Sujatha Fernandes -- Evangelicals and politics in Indonesia : the case of Surakarta / Bambang Budijanto -- Evangelicals and the democratization of South Korea since 1987 / Joshua Young-gi Hong -- Consolidating democracy : Filipino Evangelicals between People Power events, 1986-2001 / David S. Lim
Summary
Although a minority of the Asian population, Protestants in Asia are a fast growing group. In some cases, religion has effected positive changes for poor and marginalised people; but there are doubts that it has the cultural currency needed to generate political changes in governments such as that in China
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-316) and index
