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

by Gwyneth H. McClendon

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108486576
• ISBN13: 9781108486576
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.4"