Gwyneth H. Mcclendon

From Pews to Politics (eBook, PDF)

Religious Sermons and Political Participation in Africa

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Produktbeschreibung

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 comparisons in Zambia, Uganda, and Kenya to interrogate the impact of sermon exposure on political participation and the longevity of that impact. Pews to Politics in Africa leverages the pluralism of sermons in sub-Saharan Africa to gain insight into the content of cultural influences and their consequences for how ordinary citizens participate in politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108770576
• Artikelnr.: 66180410

Autorenporträt

Gwyneth H. McClendon is Assistant Professor of Politics at New York University and the author of Envy in Politics (2018). She has published numerous articles on political psychology, religion, and political participation, in the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, the Quarterly Journal of Political Science, and Comparative Political Studies among other journals.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Religion as metaphysical instruction, and its influence on political participation
2. Christianity and politics in Africa
3. Differences in contemporary Christian sermon content
4. Effects of sermons on citizens: evidence from the lab
5. Recharging sermon influence: evidence from surveys and focus groups
6. Group-level political engagement
7. Implications and conclusions.